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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804241248290.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RxRPC: Fix a regression in the RXKAD security module
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, David Howells wrote:
>
> Fix a regression in the RXKAD security module introduced in:
>
> commit 91e916cffec7c0153c5cbaa447151862a7a9a047
> Author: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Sat Mar 29 03:08:38 2008 +0000
>
> net/rxrpc trivial annotations
>
> A variable was declared as a 16-bit type rather than a 32-bit type.
Ok, that looks stupid, and should even have had a warning (shifting a u16
right by 16 should warn about it being pointless, but doesn't, because the
compiler quietly expands it to "int" in the meantime).
Hmm. I could do something to sparse that warns about that too.
Linus
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