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Message-ID: <20191023131546.GB2460@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:15:46 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> To: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix signed vs unsigned comparison in ext4_valid_extent() On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:44:47PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > > This patch can't be fixing anything because the comparison is unsigned both > before and after this patch. Thanks, you're right; I had forgotten C's signed/unsigned rules for addition. The funny thing is the original reporter of BZ #205197 reported that the problem went away he tried a similar patch. - Ted
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