The main problem is that the parentheses are in the wrong place and the unlikely() call returns either 0 or 1 so it's never less than zero. The other problem is that signed integer overflows like "INT_MAX + 1" are undefined behavior. Fixes: d9c6a72d6fa2 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/lib/test_kmod.c b/lib/test_kmod.c index e372b97eee13..30fd6d9e5361 100644 --- a/lib/test_kmod.c +++ b/lib/test_kmod.c @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ static struct kmod_test_device *register_test_dev_kmod(void) mutex_lock(®_dev_mutex); /* int should suffice for number of devices, test for wrap */ - if (unlikely(num_test_devs + 1) < 0) { + if (num_test_devs == INT_MAX) { pr_err("reached limit of number of test devices\n"); goto out; } -- 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