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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 10:15:33 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] drm/mipi-dsi: Fix theoretical int overflow in mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq()
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>, 
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>, 
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On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:43=E2=80=AFPM Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.=
org> wrote:

> The mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq() macro makes a call to
> mipi_dsi_generic_write() which returns a type ssize_t. The macro then
> stores it in an int and checks to see if it's negative. This could
> theoretically be a problem if "ssize_t" is larger than "int".
>
> To see the issue, imagine that "ssize_t" is 32-bits and "int" is
> 16-bits, you could see a problem if there was some code out there that
> looked like:
>
>   mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq(dsi, <32768 bytes as arguments>);
>
> ...since we'd get back that 32768 bytes were transferred and 32768
> stored in a 16-bit int would look negative.
>
> Though there are no callsites where we'd actually hit this (even if
> "int" was only 16-bit), it's cleaner to make the types match so let's
> fix it.
>
> Fixes: a9015ce59320 ("drm/mipi-dsi: Add a mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() macro"=
)
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij