Re: [patch] 9p: fix min_t() casting

Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-01-16T16:33:16Z

The patch has already made it upstream via the v9fs pull. I'll pull
in your fix Dan and request a second pull by Linus.
Thanks for catching this.

-eric

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:52:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:35:39 +0300
>>
>> > 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>
>>
>> If you want me to apply this, it doesn't apply cleanly to net-2.6
>> at all.
>
> Sorry.  I screwed up.
>
> This was on top of a patch from M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
> that hasn't hit net-2.6 yet.  Mohan wasn't included on the CC
> list because get_maintainer.pl changed and I didn't notice and
> I wasn't careful.
>
> Eric, could Mohan just fix his patch before it gets merged or is it
> better to send these as two patches?
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> Ps:  Mohon the patch is here:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m\x129512381528034&w=2
>
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