This field has been unsigned for a very long time, but most users of the struct file_lock and the file locking internals themselves treat it as a signed value. Change it to be pid_t (which is a signed int). Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/filelock.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/filelock.h b/include/linux/filelock.h index 95e868e09e29..085ff6ba0653 100644 --- a/include/linux/filelock.h +++ b/include/linux/filelock.h @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ struct file_lock { fl_owner_t fl_owner; unsigned int fl_flags; unsigned char fl_type; - unsigned int fl_pid; + pid_t fl_pid; int fl_link_cpu; /* what cpu's list is this on? */ wait_queue_head_t fl_wait; struct file *fl_file; -- 2.43.0