Re: [PATCH] Removing lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses and compilation warning.

On Thursday, July 7, 2016 8:42:16 PM CEST Arvind Yadav wrote:

    Passing value in IS_ERR_VALUE() is wrong, as they
    pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
    argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
    on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
    unsigned type.

    Passing an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
    argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
    8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

    Any user will get compilation warning for that do not pass an
    'unsigned long' argument.

    Commit '287980e49f; - This change is alreday fixes lots of other
    worst abusers.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <redacted>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

just notice about your submission that the changelog is whitespace
damaged, you probably got the leading whitespace when you pasted
a git log into the commit.

	Arnd