Hi Jonathan,

I encountered this when I was developing a new driver.
If you look at the function where this is used, all other IIO_VAL_MICRO and NANO
have this fix added at some point.

Thanks,
Anand

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2020 4:19 PM
> To: Anand Ashok Dumbre <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Michal
> Simek <[email protected]>; git <[email protected]>; linux-
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> [email protected]; Anand Ashok Dumbre <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: core: Fix IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL calculation for
> negative values
> 
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:14:36 -0700
> Anand Ashok Dumbre <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Fixes IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL for case when the result is negative and
> > exponent is 0.
> >
> > example: if the result is -0.75, tmp0 will be 0 and tmp1 = 75 This
> > causes the output to lose sign because of %d in snprintf which works
> > for tmp0 <= -1.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anand Ashok Dumbre <[email protected]>
> 
> Looks good.  Just one last thing.
> 
> Is this actually hit in an existing driver?  I'm just wondering how far back 
> we
> need to push it in stable etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> > ---
> > changes since v1:
> >     Changed -%d to -0 to make the fix clearer.
> >     Removed the email footer.
> >     Updated the commit description with an example
> > --
> >  drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 8 ++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c index cdcd16f1..a239fa2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > @@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static ssize_t __iio_format_value(char *buf,
> > size_t len, unsigned int type,  {
> >     unsigned long long tmp;
> >     int tmp0, tmp1;
> > +   s64 tmp2;
> >     bool scale_db = false;
> >
> >     switch (type) {
> > @@ -614,10 +615,13 @@ static ssize_t __iio_format_value(char *buf,
> size_t len, unsigned int type,
> >             else
> >                     return scnprintf(buf, len, "%d.%09u", vals[0], vals[1]);
> >     case IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL:
> > -           tmp = div_s64((s64)vals[0] * 1000000000LL, vals[1]);
> > +           tmp2 = div_s64((s64)vals[0] * 1000000000LL, vals[1]);
> >             tmp1 = vals[1];
> >             tmp0 = (int)div_s64_rem(tmp, 1000000000, &tmp1);
> > -           return scnprintf(buf, len, "%d.%09u", tmp0, abs(tmp1));
> > +           if ((tmp2 < 0) && (tmp0 == 0))
> > +                   return snprintf(buf, len, "-0.%09u", abs(tmp1));
> > +           else
> > +                   return snprintf(buf, len, "%d.%09u", tmp0,
> abs(tmp1));
> >     case IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL_LOG2:
> >             tmp = shift_right((s64)vals[0] * 1000000000LL, vals[1]);
> >             tmp0 = (int)div_s64_rem(tmp, 1000000000LL, &tmp1);

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