Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2012-02-09
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[patch] netxen_nic: signedness bug in netxen_md_entry_err_chk()

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-08 09:23:46
Also in: kernel-janitors
Subsystem: networking drivers, netxen (1/10) gbe support, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Manish Chopra, Rahul Verma, Linus Torvalds

"esize" should be signed because it can be negative here.  For example,
when we call it in netxen_parse_md_template(), it could be -1 from the
return value of netxen_md_L2Cache().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c
index 0a81228..6f37470 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c
@@ -2354,7 +2354,7 @@ netxen_md_rdqueue(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
 */
 
 static int netxen_md_entry_err_chk(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,
-				struct netxen_minidump_entry *entry, u32 esize)
+				struct netxen_minidump_entry *entry, int esize)
 {
 	if (esize < 0) {
 		entry->hdr.driver_flags |= NX_DUMP_SKIP;
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