From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] cast sizeof to int for comparison Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:51:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1530466325-1678-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <653914f26dc8433a3f682b5e7eb850ab94bd431d.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <653914f26dc8433a3f682b5e7eb850ab94bd431d.camel@perches.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Chengguang Xu , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 19:32 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Comparing an int to a size, which is unsigned, causes the int to become > > unsigned, giving the wrong result. > > > > The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: > > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > Great, thanks. > > But what about the ones in net/smc like: > > > net/smc/smc_clc.c: > > > > len = kernel_sendmsg(smc->clcsock, &msg, &vec, 1, > > sizeof(struct smc_clc_msg_decline)); > > if (len < sizeof(struct smc_clc_msg_decline)) > > Are those detected by the semantic match and ignored? I wasn't sure how to justify that kernel_sendmsg returns a negative value. If it is the case, I can send the patch. I only found this in one file, but there were multiple occurrences. julia