Re: [PATCH] ocxl: fix signed comparison with less than zero

From: Frederic Barrat
Date: Wed Jan 31 2018 - 07:57:49 EST




Le 30/01/2018 Ã 16:11, Colin King a ÃcritÂ:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently the comparison of used < 0 is always false because
uses is a size_t. Fix this by making used a ssize_t type.

Detected by Coccinelle:
drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c:320:6-10: WARNING: Unsigned expression
compared with zero: used < 0

Fixes: 5ef3166e8a32 ("ocxl: Driver code for 'generic' opencapi devices")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Thanks!
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
index c90c1a578d2f..1287e4430e6b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static ssize_t afu_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
struct ocxl_context *ctx = file->private_data;
struct ocxl_kernel_event_header header;
ssize_t rc;
- size_t used = 0;
+ ssize_t used = 0;
DEFINE_WAIT(event_wait);

memset(&header, 0, sizeof(header));