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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: roel.kluin@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: '< 0' test on unsigned
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:36:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090301.203643.105143832.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090302043056.GA16090@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:30:56 +0800

> Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
> > index 25524d4..0b9d63f 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c
> > @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static ssize_t tcpprobe_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> > {
> >        int error = 0, cnt = 0;
> > 
> > -       if (!buf || len < 0)
> > +       if (!buf || (ssize_t)len < 0)
> >                return -EINVAL;
> > 
> >        while (cnt < len) {
> 
> Either cnt needs to be promoted, or you need to limit len to INT_MAX.

Right, since the positive range of 'size_t' can exceed that of 'int'

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-01 21:09 [PATCH] tcp: '< 0' test on unsigned Roel Kluin
2009-03-02  4:30 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-02  4:36   ` David Miller [this message]
2009-03-02 12:24     ` Roel Kluin
2009-03-13 23:05       ` David Miller

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