From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20170606.151434.1826178347509987461.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170605090452.30688-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: colin.king@canonical.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170605090452.30688-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Colin King Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:04:52 +0100 > From: Colin Ian King > > 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 I know Julia asked for more comments, but I'm going to apply this as-is for now as it is correct. Thanks Colin.