netdev - Re: [patch] caif: fix a signedness bug in cfpkt

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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:35:26 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] caif: fix a signedness bug in cfpkt_iterate()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:13:13 +0300

> The cfpkt_iterate() function can return -EPROTO on error, but the
> function is a u16 so the negative value gets truncated to a positive
> unsigned short.  This causes a static checker warning.
> 
> The only caller which might care is cffrml_receive(), when it's checking
> the frame checksum.  I modified cffrml_receive() so that it never says
> -EPROTO is a valid checksum.
> 
> Also this isn't ever going to be inlined so I removed the "inline".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks Dan.
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