Re: [PATCH] mm: incorrect overflow check in shrink_slab()

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On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:32 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Nice catch but.... the 'total_scan" shouldn't be long ?
> Rather than type casting ?

Could be..  I am just trying to avoid signed integer overflow like
"total_scan += delta" in that case, which is undefined, even though
the kernel is compiled with -fno-strict-overflow.

- xi

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