[ldv-project] [PATCH] ASoC: max98090: Remove unneeded check in max98090_put_enab_tlv()

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 5/19/22 12:29, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 08:10:12PM +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
>> Variable sel is of unsigned int type, so sel < 0 is not required.
>>
>> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
> 
>>  	val = (val >> mc->shift) & mask;
>>  
>> -	if (sel < 0 || sel > mc->max)
>> +	if (sel > mc->max)
> 
> The check needs to be moved, not removed.  The userspace ABI allows
> passing in of negative values.

I was about to send the same cleanup, cppcheck reports the same issue
with a useless test.

The problem is that the values coming from userspace are cast to unsigned...