linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] bsearch: fix overflow and avoid unnecessary calculation

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Message-Id: <cover.1257776095.git.andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon,  9 Nov 2009 12:26:44 -0200
From:	André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
To:	tabbott@...lice.com, alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] bsearch: fix overflow and avoid unnecessary calculation

Fix a rare overflow situation which can occur when working with large arrays.
Also, remove an unneeded calculation.

André Goddard Rosa (2):
  bsearch: avoid unneeded decrement arithmetic
  bsearch: prevent overflow when computing middle comparison element

 lib/bsearch.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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