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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com,
	Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] qla4xxx: remove some bogus casts
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:47:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818084726.GG5610@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D2B879.7040906@sandisk.com>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:45:45PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 07:36 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >These casts are wrong and unnecessary.  They annoy static checkers
> >because they imply we are planning to write sizeof(long) bytes to a
> >sizeof(u32) buffer which would corrupt memory.
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
> Can you verify whether that patch is still needed after having
> applied the patch series I posted in July (and that was acknowledged
> by QLogic): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/103135 ?
> 

I think it is needed still?

regards,
dan carpenter


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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com,
	Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] qla4xxx: remove some bogus casts
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:47:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818084726.GG5610@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D2B879.7040906@sandisk.com>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:45:45PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 07:36 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >These casts are wrong and unnecessary.  They annoy static checkers
> >because they imply we are planning to write sizeof(long) bytes to a
> >sizeof(u32) buffer which would corrupt memory.
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
> Can you verify whether that patch is still needed after having
> applied the patch series I posted in July (and that was acknowledged
> by QLogic): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/103135 ?
> 

I think it is needed still?

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 14:36 [patch] qla4xxx: remove some bogus casts Dan Carpenter
2015-08-17 14:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-08-18  4:45 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-08-18  4:45   ` Bart Van Assche
2015-08-18  8:47   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-08-18  8:47     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-08-23  1:41     ` Bart Van Assche
2015-08-23  1:41       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-01-25 16:35       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-01-26  2:54         ` Martin K. Petersen

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