Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: pcie: fix constant-conversion warning

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Nov 10 2021 - 16:40:08 EST


On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 6:37 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> clang points out a potential issue with integer overflow when
> the iwl_dev_info_table[] array is empty:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c:1344:42: error: implicit conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'int' changes value from 18446744073709551615 to -1 [-Werror,-Wconstant-conversion]
> for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(iwl_dev_info_table) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
> ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
>
> This is still harmless, as the loop correctly terminates, but adding
> an (int) cast makes that clearer to the compiler.
>
> Fixes: 3f7320428fa4 ("iwlwifi: pcie: simplify iwl_pci_find_dev_info()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
> index c574f041f096..81e8f2fc4982 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
> @@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ iwl_pci_find_dev_info(u16 device, u16 subsystem_device,
> {
> int i;
>
> - for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(iwl_dev_info_table) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
> + for (i = (int)ARRAY_SIZE(iwl_dev_info_table) - 1; i >= 0; i--) {

Perhaps `i` could be a `size_t` instead of an `int`?

size_t i = ARRAY_SIZE(iwl_dev_info_table);
while (i--) {
...

> const struct iwl_dev_info *dev_info = &iwl_dev_info_table[i];
>
> if (dev_info->device != (u16)IWL_CFG_ANY &&
> --
> 2.29.2
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers