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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:16:01 -0700
From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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To: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>, tglx@linutronix.de
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its
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On 10/11/2013 10:11 AM, Patrick Palka wrote:
> sysfs_get_uname() is erroneously declared as returning size_t even
> though it may return a negative value, specifically -EINVAL.  Its
> callers then check whether its return value is less than zero and indeed
> that is never the case for size_t.
>
> This patch changes sysfs_get_uname() to return ssize_t and makes sure
> its callers use ssize_t accordingly.

So a similar fix has already been queued in tip/timers/core, but this
seems more complete, so I've resolved the collisions with the earlier
fix and queued it for 3.13.

Would you please take a look at the resulting commit and double check I
didn't flub the conflict resolution?

https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jstultz/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=891292a767c2453af0e5be9465e95b06b4b29ebe;hp=b7bc50e45111e59419474154736f419a555158d9

thanks
-john


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