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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com,
	Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
Cc: "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 04:45:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D2B879.7040906@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150817143647.GA23820@mwanda>

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 ?

Thanks,

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 14:36 [patch] qla4xxx: remove some bogus casts Dan Carpenter
2015-08-18  4:45 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2015-08-18  8:47   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-08-23  1:41     ` Bart Van Assche

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