From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:43:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028054307.GA1205568@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201027185058.GM401619@phenom.ffwll.local>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:33:05PM -0400, Peilin Ye wrote:
> > It is improper to define `width` and `height` as signed in `struct
> > font_desc`. Make them unsigned. Also, change the corresponding printk()
> > format identifiers from `%d` to `%u`, in sti_select_fbfont().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
>
> I'm not entirely sure of the motivation here ... height/width should never
> ever be even close to the limit here. Or have you seen integer math that
> could potentially go wrong if we go with unsigned instead of int?
Oh... No, I have not. I just thought we shouldn't represent a length
using a signed value. Also, width and height in console_font are
unsigned int - that shouldn't matter that much though.
[3/5] doesn't hunk properly without this patch, I'll send a v2 for [3/5]
soon.
Peilin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 2:05 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <cb5bb49a33ff54fef41e719ee9d301a6a73c5f9c.1603788512.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
2020-10-27 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc Peilin Ye
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[not found] ` <a3b1b3cdc160fb9aef389c366f387fb27f0aef38.1603788512.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
2020-10-27 16:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] parisc/sticore: Avoid hard-coding built-in font charcount Peilin Ye
2020-10-27 19:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-27 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28 5:43 ` Peilin Ye [this message]
2020-10-28 8:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-28 10:30 ` Peilin Ye
2020-10-28 10:56 ` [PATCH v2 " Peilin Ye
2020-10-28 18:40 ` Daniel Vetter
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