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Subject: Re: [patch] 9p: fix min_t() casting
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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:35:39 +0300

> The intent here was to cap the length to USHRT_MAX, but what the
> code actually does is it just casts the return from strlen() to
> unsigned short and truncates the significant bits away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

If you want me to apply this, it doesn't apply cleanly to net-2.6
at all.