Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:58:58 -0500
From:   Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc:     Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
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        linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
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        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 09/15] iio: afe: rescale: reduce risk of integer
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:56:12PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 8:38 PM Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 02:29:04PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 5:47 AM Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > -               tmp = 1 << *val2;
> > >
> > > At some point this should be BIT()
> 
> Forgot to add, If it's 64-bit, then BIT_ULL().
> 
> > I'm not against changing this, but (to me at least) 1 << *val2 seems
> > more explicit as we're not working with bitfields. No?
> 
> You may add a comment. You may use int_pow(), but it will be suboptimal.
> 
> > > Rule of thumb (in accordance with C standard), always use unsigned
> > > value as left operand of the _left_ shift.
> >
> > Right, that makes sense! In practice though, since we'll most likely
> > never use higher bits of *val2 with IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL_LOG2, would it be
> > enough to simply typecast?
> >
> >         tmp = 1 << (unsigned int)*val2;
> 
> No, it's about the _left_ operand.
> I haven't checked if tmp is 64-bit, then even that would be still wrong.

Okay so your recommendation is to not use a left shift?

I can look into that but given how unlikely it is to fall into those bad
cases, I'd rather keep things as they are. Would that be okay?

Also, I don't think using BIT() or BIT_ULL() would address this as they
both do the same shift, with no extra checks.

Cheers,
Liam

> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko