Re: [PATCH v11 11/12] iio: multiplexer: fix unsigned check with less than zero

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On 2017-03-27 15:06, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Comparing a size_t with less than zero is always false as size_t
>> is unsigned. So, change the type of the variable to ssize_t and
>> replicate the size check from mux_configure_channel() into
>> mux_write_ext_info() thus ensuring that the size will fit in the
>> ssize_t variable.
>>
>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1415278 ("Unsigned compared against 0")
>>
>> Fixes: 1da8e16d2812 ("iio: multiplexer: new iio category and iio-mux driver")
> 
> You should fold this one and the next patch into the patches that they
> fix up instead fixing stuff that's not yet merged incrementally like you
> do here (specifically, the SHA id above will have no matching commit).
> 
> Johan

I forgot about that. And similar for the next patch. But how do you
propose that I attribute the reporters and CoverityScan? Crap, it
would have been so much easier if the series was just pulled they
way I expected it...

Greg, how do you want to play this? Can you perhaps update the fixes
tag here and in 12/12 if/when you apply the series?

Cheers,
peda

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