Re: [PATCH] fs: fix local var type

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Thu 23-08-18 01:59:14, Weikang Shi wrote:
> In the seq_hex_dump function,the remaining variable is int, but it receive a type of size_t argument.
> So I change the type of remaining

The changelog should explain _why_ we need this fix. Is any of the code
path overflowing?

Besides that I do not think this fix is complete. What about linelen?

Why do we even need len to be size_t? Why it cannot be int as well. I
strongly doubt we need more than 32b here.
 
> Signed-off-by: Weikang Shi <swkhack@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/seq_file.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
> index 1dea7a8..d0e8bec 100644
> --- a/fs/seq_file.c
> +++ b/fs/seq_file.c
> @@ -847,7 +847,8 @@ void seq_hex_dump(struct seq_file *m, const char *prefix_str, int prefix_type,
>  		  bool ascii)
>  {
>  	const u8 *ptr = buf;
> -	int i, linelen, remaining = len;
> +	int i, linelen;
> +	size_t remaining = len;
>  	char *buffer;
>  	size_t size;
>  	int ret;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs