linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipc/mqueue: use unsigned int for retval

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:26:41 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
        Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/mqueue: use unsigned int for retval

On 02/10/2017 02:36 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> The retval variable is assigned by bitops only and thus there is no
> reason to use a signed type. Further matching it with the return 
> type of the function also makes static code checkers happy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
> ---
>
> Found by experimental type-checking coccinelle script
>
> Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig
>
> Patch is against 4.10-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20170209)
>
>  ipc/mqueue.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
> index 4fdd970..897ce70 100644
> --- a/ipc/mqueue.c
> +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static int mqueue_flush_file(struct file *filp, fl_owner_t id)
>  static unsigned int mqueue_poll_file(struct file *filp, struct poll_table_struct *poll_tab)
>  {
>  	struct mqueue_inode_info *info = MQUEUE_I(file_inode(filp));
> -	int retval = 0;
> +	unsigned int retval = 0;
>  
>  	poll_wait(filp, &info->wait_q, poll_tab);
>  

Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>