Hi Dan, Thank you for the patch. We are also trying to fix the issue: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/19/29 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/8/55 and the fix is finally in Greg's tty git tree since yesterday: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git (tty-linus branch). Best regards, Alexey On 04/09/2013 09:18 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > There were a couple signedness bugs decrementing "i" which would lead to > a forever loops. > > I've made a couple other variables signed as well because they are all > related array offsets and it would be weird if they weren't the same > type. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c > index d996038..a095859 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/mxser.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/mxser.c > @@ -2556,9 +2556,9 @@ static int mxser_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > { > #ifdef CONFIG_PCI > struct mxser_board *brd; > - unsigned int i, j; > unsigned long ioaddress; > struct device *tty_dev; > + int i, j; > int retval = -EINVAL; > > for (i = 0; i < MXSER_BOARDS; i++) > @@ -2700,7 +2700,7 @@ static int __init mxser_module_init(void) > { > struct mxser_board *brd; > struct device *tty_dev; > - unsigned int b, i, m; > + int b, i, m; > int retval; > > mxvar_sdriver = alloc_tty_driver(MXSER_PORTS + 1); > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html