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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iio:proximity:sx9324: Fix hardware gain read/write
On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 01:16:10 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 5:58 AM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > There are four possible gain values according to sx9324_gain_vals[]: 1,
> > 2, 4, and 8. When writing and reading the register the values are off by
> > one. The bits should be set according to this equation:
> >
> > ilog2(<gain>) + 1
> >
> > so that a gain of 8 is 0x3 in the register field and a gain of 4 is 0x2
> > in the register field, etc. Fix up the functions.
>
> ...
>
> > + *val = 1 << regval;
>
> I see it's similar in the original code, but this is still problematic
> from C standard point of view, i.e. if regval = 31, the C standard
> calls it UB (Undefined Behaviour).
>

I don't see that as a problem as regval is coming from a FIELD_GET() with a 3 bit mask
so we can't hit the UB case (can only be up to 7 - well 6 because of the --)

Jonathan


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