linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] char: random: casting prevents missing calculations

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Date:   Sun, 7 May 2017 20:36:55 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: random: casting prevents missing calculations

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com> wrote:
> Cast (long)jiffies and (long)state->last_time beacause
> they tends to unsigned long. may cause a problem specially
> when comparison happens (< 0).
>
> Signed-off-by: Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com>

I don't understand what you are saying above, and the patch does not
appear to have any effect since the destination variable is already of
type 'long'.

What problem did you observe?

       Arnd