Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com> wrote: > IS_ERR_VALUE() assumes that its parameter is an unsigned long. > It can not be used to check if an 'unsigned int' reflects an error. > As they pass an 'unsigned int' into a function that takes an > 'unsigned long' argument. This happens to work because the type > is sign-extended on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted > into an unsigned type. > > However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int' > argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are > 8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'. > > It would be nice to any users that are not passing 'unsigned int' > arguments. > > Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav...@gmail.com>
This touches include/linux/err.h and I'm not very enthusiastic to change anything in include directory without wider support. I recommend first to just fix bcma. And separately you can try to improve linux/err.h via some more approariate tree, not via wireless trees. -- Sent by pwcli https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9222139/
