On Monday, July 23, 2012, Zhang Rui wrote: > On 四, 2012-07-19 at 22:27 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, July 19, 2012, Zhang Rui wrote: > > > From: Durgadoss R <dugardoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> [...] > > > if (trips > THERMAL_MAX_TRIPS || trips < 0) > > > return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); > > > > > > + if (flag >> trips) > > > + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); > > > > I'm not sure if this check is necessary. Does it actually matter is someone > > passes ones in the unused bit positions? > > > I do not think we can trust this value if the caller even wants to set > writable mask for a non-exist trip point. OK, so perhaps we can merge the two conditionals into one? Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html