Oh... Hm. I was a bit confused by what Walter was saying. But there already is an integer overflow check here so it can't actually be negative... I added it a couple years ago. Forget about this patch. Sorry. regards, dan carpenter -- 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