Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The problem is that "req->actual" is a u32, "req->status" is an int, and > iocb->ki_complete() takes a long. We would expect that a negative error > code in "req->status" would translate to a negative long value. > > But what actually happens is that because "req->actual" is a u32, the > error codes is type promoted to a high positive value and then remains > a positive value when it is cast to long. (No sign expansion). > > We can fix this by casting "req->status" to long. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> I'm just going to assume your type promotion rank is correct :-) Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> -- balbi
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