linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] media: uvcvideo: Fix negative modulus calculation

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:28:03 +0100
From: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "hn.chen" <hn.chen@...plusit.com>, 
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/6] media: uvcvideo: Fix negative modulus calculation

Hi Laurent

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 23:59, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 02:30:12PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > If head is 0, last will be addressing the index 0 instead of clock->size
> > -1. Luckily clock->head is unsiged, otherwise it would be addressing
> > 0xffffffff.
>
> I'm not following you. In the expression
>
>         (clock->head - 1) % clock->size
>
> clock->head is an unsigned int, and 1 as a signed int, so the result of
> the subtraction is promoted to an unsigned int. When clock->head is 0, the expression evaluates to
>
>         0xffffffff % clock->size
>
> clock->size is a power of two (hardcoded to 32 at the moment), so the
> expression evaluates to 31, as intended.
>
> Am I missing something ?

Take a look to: https://godbolt.org/z/xYeqTx6ba

The expression only works because the size is a power of two. In this
set I am allowing sizes that are not powers of two.

Regards!




>
> > Nontheless, this is not the intented behaviour and should be fixed.
> >
> > Fixes: 66847ef013cc ("[media] uvcvideo: Add UVC timestamps support")
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > index d4b023d4de7c..4ff4ab4471fe 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ void uvc_video_clock_update(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
> >               goto done;
> >
> >       first = &clock->samples[clock->head];
> > -     last = &clock->samples[(clock->head - 1) % clock->size];
> > +     last = &clock->samples[(clock->head - 1 + clock->size) % clock->size];
> >
> >       /* First step, PTS to SOF conversion. */
> >       delta_stc = buf->pts - (1UL << 31);
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart



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Ricardo Ribalda