[patch] 9p: fix min_t() casting

Dan Carpenter
2011-01-15T20:35:39Z

The intent here was to cap the length to USHRT_MAX, but what the
code actually does is it just casts the return from strlen() to
unsigned short and truncates the significant bits away.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/net/9p/protocol.c b/net/9p/protocol.c
index 1e308f2..0422581 100644
--- a/net/9p/protocol.c
+++ b/net/9p/protocol.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ p9pdu_vwritef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int proto_version, const char *fmt,
const char *sptr = va_arg(ap, const char *);
uint16_t len = 0;
if (sptr)
- len = min_t(uint16_t, strlen(sptr),
+ len = min_t(size_t, strlen(sptr),
USHRT_MAX);

errcode = p9pdu_writef(pdu, proto_version,