linux-kernel - [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit

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Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:36:17 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / CPPC: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit

Add suffix ULL to constant 500 in order to give the compiler complete
information about the proper arithmetic to use. Notice that this
constant is used in a context that expects an expression of type
u64 (64 bits, unsigned).

The expression NUM_RETRIES * cppc_ss->latency at line 578, which at
preprocessing time translates to 500 * cppc_ss->latency is currently
being evaluated using 32-bit arithmetic.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1382602
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
Notice that another option is to cast NUM_RETRIES to u64 at line 578,
but as there is only one instace in which this macro is being used I
think adding the ULL is just enough.

 drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
index 06ea474..0afbb26 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpc_desc *, cpc_desc_ptr);
  * to PCC commands. Keeping it high enough to cover emulators where
  * the processors run painfully slow.
  */
-#define NUM_RETRIES 500
+#define NUM_RETRIES 500ULL
 
 struct cppc_attr {
 	struct attribute attr;
-- 
2.7.4