Fixes the issue caused by the fact that in C in the expression of the form -1234L only 1234L is the actual literal, the unary minus is an operation applied to the literal. Which means that to express the lower bound for the type one has to negate the upper bound and subtract 1. Original error: Expected test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == timestamp.tv_sec, but test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == -2147483648 timestamp.tv_sec == 2147483648 1901-12-13 Lower bound of 32bit < 0 timestamp, no extra bits: msb:1 lower_bound:1 extra_bits: 0 Expected test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == timestamp.tv_sec, but test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == 2147483648 timestamp.tv_sec == 6442450944 2038-01-19 Lower bound of 32bit <0 timestamp, lo extra sec bit on: msb:1 lower_bound:1 extra_bits: 1 Expected test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == timestamp.tv_sec, but test_data[i].expected.tv_sec == 6442450944 timestamp.tv_sec == 10737418240 2174-02-25 Lower bound of 32bit <0 timestamp, hi extra sec bit on: msb:1 lower_bound:1 extra_bits: 2 not ok 1 - inode_test_xtimestamp_decoding not ok 1 - ext4_inode_test Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode-test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode-test.c b/fs/ext4/inode-test.c index 92a9da1774aa..bbce1c328d85 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode-test.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode-test.c @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ * For constructing the negative timestamp lower bound value. * binary: 10000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 */ -#define LOWER_MSB_1 (-0x80000000L) +#define LOWER_MSB_1 (-(UPPER_MSB_0) - 1L) /* avoid overflow */ /* * For constructing the negative timestamp upper bound value. * binary: 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111 -- 2.24.0.432.g9d3f5f5b63-goog