linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] rtc: msc313: Fix unintentional sign extension issue on left shift of a u16

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Message-ID: <CAFr9PXnMXPmuaUnfr-VwaZDX1hY8ZDtp1+UxOau6DKpUP9FdzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:31:06 +0900
From:   Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@...ngy.jp>,
        Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@...auri.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] rtc: msc313: Fix unintentional sign extension issue
 on left shift of a u16

Hi Colin,

On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 21:39, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>Shifting the u16 value returned by readw by 16 bits to the left
>will be promoted to a 32 bit signed int and then sign-extended
>to an unsigned long. If the top bit of the readw is set then
>the shifted value will be sign extended and the top 32 bits of
>the result will be set.

Ah,.. C is fun in all the wrong places. :)
These chips are full of 32bit registers that are split into two 16
registers 4 bytes apart when seen from the ARM CPU so we probably have
this same mistake in a few other places.

A similar pattern is used a bit later on in the same file to read the counter:

seconds = readw(priv->rtc_base + REG_RTC_CNT_VAL_L)
| (readw(priv->rtc_base + REG_RTC_CNT_VAL_H) << 16);

I guess it works at the moment because the top bit won't be set until 2038.

Thanks,

Daniel