Re: New Defects based on recent changes in Kernel code found by Coverity Scan

["Love, Robert W" <robert.w.love@intel.com>]

On 7/3/2012 3:27 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:32:09 -0700
> Scan Subscription <scan-subscription@coverity.com> wrote:
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> CID 703581 -  NO_EFFECT Unsigned compared against 0 - This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "*val < 0UL".
>
> drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c:105
> 100 static int fcoe_str_to_dev_loss(const char *buf, unsigned long *val)
> 101 {
> 102        int ret;
> 103
> 104        ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, val);
>>>>> CID 703581: Unsigned compared against 0 (NO_EFFECT) This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "*val < 0UL".
>> 105        if (ret || *val < 0)
>> 106                return -EINVAL;
>> 107        /*
>> 108         * Check for overflow; dev_loss_tmo is u32
>>
Patch posted to linux-scsi.

Thanks, //Rob