hwmon: (lm78) Fix overflow problems seen when writing large temperature limits
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:48:59 +0000 (20:48 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:41:41 +0000 (23:41 +0100)
commit 1074d683a51f1aded3562add9ef313e75d557327 upstream.

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

Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Reviewed-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/hwmon/lm78.c

Simple merge