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Date:   Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:33:38 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -next] btrfs: Remove unnecessary casts in
 btrfs_read_root_item
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:32:02PM +0000, YueHaibing wrote:
> There is a messy cast here:
> 	min_t(int, len, (int)sizeof(*item)));
> 
> min_t() should normally cast to unsigned.  It's not possible for
> "len" to be negative, but if it were then we definitely
> wouldn't want to pass negatives to read_extent_buffer().  Also there
> is an extra cast.
> 
> This patch shouldn't affect runtime, it's just a clean up.
> 
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

It wasn't really suggested by me...  But I do think it's the right
thing.

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

regards,
dan carpenter