On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:50:12AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit 9db4dc241e87fccd8301357d5ef908f40b50f2e3 ] > > It's currently u64 which gets instantly translated either to LONG_MAX > (if U64_MAX is passed) or cast to an unsigned long (which is in fact, > wrong because writeback_control::nr_to_write is a signed, long type). > > Just convert the function's argument to be long time which obviates the > need to manually convert u64 value to a long. Adjust all call sites > which pass U64_MAX to pass LONG_MAX. Finally ensure that in > shrink_delalloc the u64 is converted to a long without overflowing, > resulting in a negative number. This patch is a cleanup and I don't see any other patch depend on it, so please drop it from autosel.
