Re: [PATCH]: Supress a `comparison is always false' warning in fs/cifs/asn1.c

Re: [PATCH]: Supress a `comparison is always false' warning in fs/cifs/asn1.c

[Steve French]

Chris,
Although this check seems harmless, shrinking the range to uint from
ulong makes sense as Suresh suggested and I was planning on adding
this to the cifs-2.6.git tree - but was not sure if you would prefer
to change both locations at once.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> wrote:
> On x86_64, I get this warning:
>
> fs/cifs/asn1.c: In function `asn1_oid_decode':
> fs/cifs/asn1.c:403: warning: comparison is always false due to limited
> range of data type
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/asn1.c b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> index f58e41d..4bdf809 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ asn1_oid_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
>        size = eoc - ctx->pointer + 1;
>
>        /* first subid actually encodes first two subids */
> -       if (size < 2 || size > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(unsigned long))
> +       if (size < 2 || size > UINT_MAX/sizeof(unsigned int))
>                return 0;
>
>        *oid = kmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_ATOMIC);
>
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve