Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965174Ab2KVTUG (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:20:06 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:37875 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756727Ab2KVTUB (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:20:01 -0500 Message-ID: <50AD723B.60605@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:30:51 +0100 From: Cyril Roelandt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.10) Gecko/20121027 Icedove/10.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi_system_write_wakeup_device(): fix error check for unsigned variable. References: <1353117263-6957-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com> <1732852.VDXGV3Ao2T@vostro.rjw.lan> <50AD6C4A.4030809@gmail.com> <1645783.2WuR77RKxS@vostro.rjw.lan> In-Reply-To: <1645783.2WuR77RKxS@vostro.rjw.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 45 On 11/22/2012 01:23 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, November 22, 2012 01:05:30 AM Cyril Roelandt wrote: >> On 11/21/2012 01:44 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Saturday, November 17, 2012 02:54:23 AM Cyril Roelandt wrote: >>>> The LEN variable is unsigned, therefore checking whether it is less than 0 is >>>> useless. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt >>>> --- >>>> drivers/acpi/proc.c | 2 -- >>>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/proc.c b/drivers/acpi/proc.c >>>> index 27adb09..37871a7 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/proc.c >>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/proc.c >>>> @@ -366,8 +366,6 @@ acpi_system_write_wakeup_device(struct file *file, >>>> >>>> if (len> 4) >>>> len = 4; >>>> - if (len< 0) >>>> - return -EFAULT; >>> >>> I would prefer to check if count< 0 instead. >>> >> >> >> count has type size_t, so it is also an unsigned variable. I think that >> acpi_system_write_wakeup_device really cannot be called with a "count" >> parameter that is less than 0. > > OK > > So I suppose we can just drop len entirely and replace it with count, right? > [And drop the< 0 check too.] > Indeed, I'll resend. Cyril Roelandt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/