Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] IB/core: Fix bit curruption in ib_device_cap_flags structure

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 07:34:39PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> ib_device_cap_flags 64-bit expansion caused caps overlapping
> and made consumers read wrong device capabilities. For example
> IB_DEVICE_SG_GAPS_REG was falsely read by the iser driver causing
> it to use a non-existing capability. This happened because signed
> int becomes sign extended when converted it to u64. Fix this by
> casting IB_DEVICE_ON_DEMAND_PAGING enumeration to ULL.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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