Haibo Chen 38d60f808b mmc: sdhci: make tuning_err a signed int ...

commit ae31bcc92b upstream.

Coverity report INTEGER_OVERFLOW for host->tuning_err.
The tuning_err field in struct sdhci_host is used to store an error
code for re-tuning, but it was declared as unsigned int. Several call
sites store negative error codes into it and later compare against
negative values:

  - sdhci.c, sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c and sdhci-pci-gli.c assign it the
    return value of __sdhci_execute_tuning()/__sdhci_execute_tuning_9750(),
    both of which return a signed int (possibly a negative errno);
  - sdhci-of-esdhc.c assigns host->tuning_err = -EAGAIN and later does
    "ret = host->tuning_err; if (ret == -EAGAIN ...)";
  - sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c prints it with the %d (signed) conversion.

Storing a negative errno in an unsigned int and reading it back as a
signed int only happens to work because of two's-complement, same-width
integer conversions. It is misleading and triggers sign-conversion
warnings. All users treat the value either as a signed error code or as
a boolean (zero / non-zero), so changing the type to a signed int is
safe and makes the intent explicit.

Fixes: 7d8bb1f46e ("mmc: sdhci: add tuning error codes")
Assisted-by: Cline:claude-sonnet [read_file, search_files, git]
Signed-off-by: Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulfh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2026-08-23 14:19:59 +02:00

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mmc: core: Fix host controller programming for fixed driver type

2026-06-19 13:39:36 +02:00

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mmc: sdhci: make tuning_err a signed int

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