linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/edid: Use unsigned int in drm_add_modes

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Message-ID: <4a7f76493305b0afc6ae8d14cfd7bc031316b3d0.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:27:44 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
	 <mripard@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Thomas Zimmermann
	 <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter	
 <simona@...ll.ch>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor	
 <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo	
 <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron	
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas
 Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor
 Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,  "open list:RUST:Keyword:b(?i:rust)b"	
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/edid: Use unsigned int in drm_add_modes_noedid()

On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 12:39 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > A negative resolution doesn't really make any sense, no one goes into a TV
> > store and says "Hello sir, I would like a negative 4K TV please", that
> > would make everyone look at you funny.
> 
> That is largely the point, though. You know something fishy is going on
> when you have a negative resolution. Nobody blinks an eye when you ask
> for 4294963K telly, but it's still just as bonkers as that negative 4K.
> 
> I think the change at hand is fine, but please let's not pretend using
> unsigned somehow protects us from negative numbers.

So - it actually does protect us to a limited extent on the rust side of
things. With CONFIG_RUST_OVERFLOW_CHECKS=y, arithematic checks are builtin to
the language. This isn't the default config of course, but it's better then
nothing.

I probably should have mentioned this in the commit message so I'll do that on
the next respin.
> 
> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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