Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752216AbaFDJfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 05:35:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:40082 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751706AbaFDJfi (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 05:35:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1401872880-23685-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1401872880-23685-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:35:37 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: edj2955ZXJqxIhH9vZlDrrgmuVU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] use safer test on the result of find_first_zero_bit From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Julia Lawall Cc: linux-rdma , "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux-sh list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , driverdevel , iss_storagedev@hp.com, scsi , linux-s390 , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Julia, On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Julia Lawall wrote: > Find_first_zero_bit considers BITS_PER_LONG bits at a time, and thus may > return a larger number than the maximum position argument if that position > is not a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG. Shouldn't this be fixed in find_first_zero_bit() instead? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/