Re: [PATCH] ocxl: fix signed comparison with less than zero

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On 31/01/18 02:11, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently the comparison of used < 0 is always false because
uses is a size_t. Fix this by making used a ssize_t type.

Detected by Coccinelle:
drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c:320:6-10: WARNING: Unsigned expression
compared with zero: used < 0

Fixes: 5ef3166e8a32 ("ocxl: Driver code for 'generic' opencapi devices")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for picking this up!

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

---
  drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
index c90c1a578d2f..1287e4430e6b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static ssize_t afu_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count,
  	struct ocxl_context *ctx = file->private_data;
  	struct ocxl_kernel_event_header header;
  	ssize_t rc;
-	size_t used = 0;
+	ssize_t used = 0;
  	DEFINE_WAIT(event_wait);
memset(&header, 0, sizeof(header));


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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx  IBM Australia Limited

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