linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix a parameter of find_first

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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2016 13:12:23 -0400
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        matanb@...lanox.com, leonro@...lanox.com, sean.hefty@...el.com,
        hal.rosenstock@...il.com
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix a parameter of find_first_bit

On 8/26/2016 1:16 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> The 2nd parameter of 'find_first_bit' is the number of bits to search.
> In this case, we are passing 'sizeof(tmp)' which is likely to be 4 or 8
> because 'tmp' is an 'unsigned long'.
> 
> It is likely that the number of bits of 'tmp' was expected here. So use
> BITS_PER_LONG instead.

Thanks, applied.


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