From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: colin.king@canonical.com
Cc: peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2] net: stmmac: ensure jumbo_frm error return is correctly checked for -ve value
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:14:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170606.151434.1826178347509987461.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170605090452.30688-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:04:52 +0100
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> The current comparison of entry < 0 will never be true since entry is an
> unsigned integer. Make entry an int to ensure -ve error return values
> from the call to jumbo_frm are correctly being caught.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1238760 ("Macro compares unsigned to 0")
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
I know Julia asked for more comments, but I'm going to apply this
as-is for now as it is correct.
Thanks Colin.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-06 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 9:04 [PATCH][V2] net: stmmac: ensure jumbo_frm error return is correctly checked for -ve value Colin King
2017-06-05 9:20 ` Julia Lawall
2017-06-06 19:14 ` David Miller [this message]
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