[PATCH 1/2] ASoC: ops: fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 01:48:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 04:31:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:04PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > This means that the helpers won't support controls that use the top bit
> > > of a 32 bit register.
> 
> > Fine, I can delete the checks for negative instead (I'm surprised you
> > haven't already received a dozen bot emails about this).
> 
> No, we need the checks for negatives since userspace supplies a signed
> value.  The check needs to be done on the value in the input structure
> before we pull it out for mangling.  I probably got bot emails but
> frankly these days almost all of them are some combination of barely
> legible and misdirected and there's plenty of people who like to fix
> these things if they're real.
> 

That's a bit trickier than I initially imagined so I'm going to leave
this for smarter people than me...

regards,
dan carpenter