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SubjectRe: [PATCH] wifi: rt2x00: use explicitly signed type for clamping
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 02:27:34PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On some platforms, `char` is unsigned, which makes casting -7 to char
> overflow, which in turn makes the clamping operation bogus. Instead,
> deal with an explicit `s8` type, so that the comparison is always
> signed, and return an s8 result from the function as well. Note that
> this function's result is assigned to a `short`, which is always signed.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
> Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

I prefer s8 just because is shorter name than short :-)

Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>


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