linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types

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Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:07:41 +0000
From:	André Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, marc.zyngier@....com,
	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com,
	Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] crypto: sunxi-ss: fix min3() call to match types

Hi Arnd,
On 12/22/15 22:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> The min3() macro expects all arguments to be of the same type (or
>> size at least). While two arguments are ints or u32s, one is size_t,
>> which does not match on 64-bit architectures.
>> Cast the size_t to u32 to make min3() happy. In this context here the
>> length should never exceed 32 bits anyway.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
> 
> Looks correct, but a bit ugly. Could we avoid the casts by using
> temporary variables to keep the size_t based data?

I guess this gets even uglier, but I found a better solution by
promoting the other involved variables to size_t in this function. This
works nicely for most of the cases, I just need two size_t casts now.
Will send an updated version soon.

Cheers,
Andre.

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