[cifs:for-next 7/9] fs/cifs/file.c:3203:7-14: WARNING: Unsigned expression compared with zero: cur_len < 0 (fwd)

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 16:13:59 UTC 2018


On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:06 AM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Steve French wrote:
d>
> > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:18 AM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Steve French wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i,
> > > >                    struct page ***pages, size_t maxsize,
> > > >                    size_t *start)
> > >
> > > The return type is ssize_t not size_t.  Putting a negative value into a
> > > size_t variable makes it positive
> >
> >
> > Aah - I misread the extra s (ssize_t vs. size_t) that is missing in his patch.
> >
> > How about this trivial fix (attached)  -
>
> It looks fine.  There is though an extra space between result and =, and
> it seems checkpatch does not like function calls that end with an open
> parenthesis.  But, up to you.
>
> julia
>

Fixed the extra space -  thx

checkpatch didn't complain on my system about the parentheses.



-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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