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

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Message-ID: <2c2ba7e0-4861-46c7-992e-a201972ffce8@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 08:47:36 +0000
From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
 Michael Walle <mwalle@...nel.org>, 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 3/4/24 08:46, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> On 3/4/24 12:51 PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
> I'm sending a v2 with int.

thanks!