In a 64bit system (where long is 64bit wide), even dividing LONG_MAX by HZ will always be bigger than the max value that an int variable can hold. This has been detected by building the driver with W=1: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c: In function ‘srp_tmo_valid’: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c:92:19: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits] if (dev_loss_tmo >= LONG_MAX / HZ) ^ Signed-off-by: Augusto Mecking Caringi <augustocaringi@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c index b87a786..d8c83f4 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ int srp_tmo_valid(int reconnect_delay, int fast_io_fail_tmo, int dev_loss_tmo) if (fast_io_fail_tmo < 0 && dev_loss_tmo > SCSI_DEVICE_BLOCK_MAX_TIMEOUT) return -EINVAL; - if (dev_loss_tmo >= LONG_MAX / HZ) + if (dev_loss_tmo >= INT_MAX / HZ) return -EINVAL; if (fast_io_fail_tmo >= 0 && dev_loss_tmo >= 0 && fast_io_fail_tmo >= dev_loss_tmo) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html