2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> commit 52c5171214ff3327961d0ce0db7e8d2ce55004fd upstream. This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code such as if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) { error } will fail to detect the error. So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36. Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Stefani Seibold <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/linux/kfifo.h | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/kfifo.h +++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h @@ -171,11 +171,8 @@ struct kfifo_rec_ptr_2 __STRUCT_KFIFO_PT } -static inline unsigned int __must_check -__kfifo_must_check_helper(unsigned int val) -{ - return val; -} +/* __kfifo_must_check_helper() is temporarily disabled because it was faulty */ +#define __kfifo_must_check_helper(x) (x) /** * kfifo_initialized - Check if the fifo is initialized _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
