netdev - Re: [PATCH][V2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid unintended sign extension on a 16 bit shift

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:36:39 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid unintended sign
 extension on a 16 bit shift

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:55:05 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The shifting of timehi by 16 bits to the left will be promoted to
> a 32 bit signed int and then sign-extended to an u64. If the top bit
> of timehi is set then all then all the upper bits of ns end up as also
> being set because of the sign-extension. Fix this by making timehi and
> timelo u64.  Also move the declaration of ns.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465288 ("Unintended sign extension")
> 
> Fixes: c6fe0ad2c349 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add rx/tx timestamping support")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Please indicate the appropriate target tree in your Subject lines
in the future, for this it should be "[PATCH net-next]".

Applied, thanks.