linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: core: correct type of i to be signed

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Message-ID: <713393d5-13ef-4891-bf7c-d835edacef8a@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 07:51:26 +0000
From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>
To: Michael Walle <mwalle@...nel.org>,
 Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
 Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@...nel.org>,
 Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
 Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
 Takahiro Kuwano <Takahiro.Kuwano@...ineon.com>
Cc: kernel@...labora.com, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: core: correct type of i to be signed



On 3/1/24 15:04, Michael Walle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri Mar 1, 2024 at 3:45 PM CET, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> The i should be signed to find out the end of the loop. Otherwise,
>> i >= 0 is always true and loop becomes infinite.
>>
>> Fixes: 6a9eda34418f ("mtd: spi-nor: core: set mtd->eraseregions for non-uniform erase map")
>> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
>> index 65b32ea59afc6..46bc45b80883f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/core.c
>> @@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@ static u32
>>  spi_nor_get_region_erasesize(const struct spi_nor_erase_region *region,
>>  			     const struct spi_nor_erase_type *erase_type)
>>  {
>> -	u8 i;
>> +	s8 i;
> 
> Can we just have an "int" here. So we don't shoot ourselves in the

Muhammad, do you care to resubmit using int? Would be better indeed.

> foot again. I'm really no friend of these kind of micro
> optimizations, it should have been int in the first place IMHO.
> 
> -michael
> 
>>  
>>  	if (region->overlaid)
>>  		return region->size;
>