The test here is intended intended to prevent shift wrapping bugs when we do "1U << idx2". We should consider the number of bits in a u32 instead of the number of bytes.
Fixes: 7bb2491b35a2 ('ALSA: Add kconfig to specify the max card numbers') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com --- WARNING: Please check this one carefully because I might be wrong.
diff --git a/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c index 1351f22f651c..e9e3db321e64 100644 --- a/sound/core/init.c +++ b/sound/core/init.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int snd_card_create(int idx, const char *xid, if (idx < 0) { for (idx2 = 0; idx2 < SNDRV_CARDS; idx2++) { /* idx == -1 == 0xffff means: take any free slot */ - if (idx2 < sizeof(int) && !(idx & (1U << idx2))) + if (idx2 < 32 && !(idx & (1U << idx2))) continue; if (!test_bit(idx2, snd_cards_lock)) { if (!slots[idx2] || !*slots[idx2]) {