hwmon: (gpio-fan) Prevent overflow problem when writing large limits
authorAxel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Sat, 2 Aug 2014 05:36:38 +0000 (13:36 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Sep 2014 23:34:14 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
commit7d6e5a9dbeaf5788ebb9fb1471168814d7225d20
tree77db9c29a6b8d0bb898531b6bbf7f9f6a4347129
parentd9ef104e7990ad0cbe3314fa4eca192a2f8ca316
hwmon: (gpio-fan) Prevent overflow problem when writing large limits

commit 2565fb05d1e9fc0831f7b1c083bcfcb1cba1f020 upstream.

On platforms with sizeof(int) < sizeof(unsigned long), writing a rpm value
larger than MAXINT will result in unpredictable limit values written to the
chip. Avoid auto-conversion from unsigned long to int to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c