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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-tcp: fix signedness bug in nvme_tcp_init_connection()
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 15:38:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250305143814.GA18852@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <739d3443-61c4-4b69-866b-142efde59062@stanley.mountain>

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:37:15PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > 	if (ret >= 0 && ret < sizeof(*icresp))
> > 		ret = -ECONNRESET;
> > 	if (ret < 0) {
> > 		...
> 
> Sure, I can do that.
> 
> I don't love casts either.  I normally have tried to write these as
> "if (ret < 0 || ret < sizeof(*icresp)) {" and people don't love that.

I can see why people don't like it as it's really counterintuitive.
These kinds of interfaces just suck given the type promotion rules
unfortunately.


      reply	other threads:[~2025-03-05 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-28  9:39 [PATCH] nvme-tcp: fix signedness bug in nvme_tcp_init_connection() Dan Carpenter
2025-02-28 16:19 ` Caleb Sander Mateos
2025-03-01 23:16 ` Sagi Grimberg
2025-03-03 18:43 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2025-03-05 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-05 14:37   ` Dan Carpenter
2025-03-05 14:38     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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