linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: xen-front: fix unsigned error check on return from to_sndif

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Message-ID: <s5h8t84unxs.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 11:30:55 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     "Takashi Sakamoto" <o-takashi@...amocchi.jp>
Cc:     <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        "Colin King" <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "Oleksandr Andrushchenko" <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        "Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@...ex.cz>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ALSA: xen-front: fix unsigned error check on return from to_sndif_format

On Mon, 28 May 2018 00:49:03 +0200,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On May 28 2018 06:32, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> >
> > The negative error return from the call to to_sndif_format is being
> > assigned to an unsigned 8 bit integer and hence the check for a negative
> > value is always going to be false.  Fix this by using ret as the error
> > return and hence the negative error can be detected and assign
> > the u8 sndif_format to ret if there is no error.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469385 ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> > ---
> >   sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c | 7 ++++---
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > index 5041f83e98d2..5a2bd70a2fa1 100644
> > --- a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > +++ b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > @@ -466,13 +466,14 @@ static int alsa_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> >   		u8 sndif_format;
> >   		int ret;
> >   -		sndif_format = to_sndif_format(runtime->format);
> > -		if (sndif_format < 0) {
> > +		ret = to_sndif_format(runtime->format);
> > +		if (ret < 0) {
> >   			dev_err(&stream->front_info->xb_dev->dev,
> >   				"Unsupported sample format: %d\n",
> >   				runtime->format);
> > -			return sndif_format;
> > +			return ret;
> >   		}
> > +		sndif_format = ret;
> >     		ret =
> > xen_snd_front_stream_prepare(&stream->evt_pair->req,
> >   						   &stream->sh_buf,
> 
> Indeed. A typical assignment mistake. Instead, we could change the
> type of 'sndif_format' to signed int, however in this case it's not
> the same as the third argument of xen_snd_front_stream_prepare()
> because it is 'u8'. This patch looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@...amoccchi.jp>

Applied, thanks.


Takashi