ASoC: wm8731: harmless underflow in wm8731_put_deemph()

The code tries to verify that "deemph" is zero or one, but it fails to account for that it can be negative. It's harmless because negatives are treated the same as one, but we should fix it just to silence the static checker warning.

index ace8645..07cf1bd 100644
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static int wm8731_put_deemph(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 {
 	struct snd_soc_codec *codec = snd_soc_kcontrol_codec(kcontrol);
 	struct wm8731_priv *wm8731 = snd_soc_codec_get_drvdata(codec);
-	int deemph = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
+	unsigned int deemph = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (deemph > 1)

Thanks,
Charles

The patch

ASoC: wm8731: harmless underflow in wm8731_put_deemph()

has been applied to the asoc tree at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git

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Thanks,
Mark

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:08:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8731: harmless underflow in wm8731_put_deemph()

The code tries to verify that "deemph" is zero or one, but it fails to account for that it can be negative. It's harmless because negatives are treated the same as one, but we should fix it just to silence the static checker warning.

---
 sound/soc/codecs/wm8731.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index ace8645..07cf1bd 100644
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static int wm8731_put_deemph(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 {
 	struct snd_soc_codec *codec = snd_soc_kcontrol_codec(kcontrol);
 	struct wm8731_priv *wm8731 = snd_soc_codec_get_drvdata(codec);
-	int deemph = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
+	unsigned int deemph = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (deemph > 1)

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