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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/core: type promotion bug in rdma_rw_init_one_mr()
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:27:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704162743.GP3014@mtr-leonro.mtl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180704093211.o62tr44m3ugxxhjh@kili.mountain>

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 08:49:47AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:55:41PM +0200, Håkon Bugge wrote:
> >    Is:
> >
> >    if (ret < (int)nents) {
> >
> >    a more intuitive fix?
>
> That could lead to truncation/force negativeness of nents :(

IS_ERROR_VALUE() from include/linux/err.h?

>
> I wonder how many bugs like this we have.

Judging by the number of similar patches in netdev, I don't think
that we will have many "bugs", but maybe I'm wrong about it.

>
> Jason
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-04 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-04  9:32 [PATCH] IB/core: type promotion bug in rdma_rw_init_one_mr() Dan Carpenter
2018-07-04 10:41 ` Walter Harms
2018-07-04 10:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-07-04 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-07-04 16:27 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2018-07-04 17:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-07-04 17:07 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-07-04 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-07-04 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-07-08 15:07 ` Christoph Hellwig

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