linux-kernel - Re: Rust kernel policy

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Message-ID: <20250221131910.5ddac0f3@batman.local.home>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:19:10 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Uecker <uecker@...raz.at>, Dan Carpenter
 <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Boqun
 Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Miguel Ojeda
 <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
 rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, David Airlie
 <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:07:42 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

>          if (x < 0 || x >= 10) {
> 
> just because 'x' may in some cases be an unsigned entity is not worth
> even discussing with.
> 
> Educate yourself. The "unsigned smaller than 0" warning is not valid.

Bah, you're right. I wasn't looking at the x >= 10 part, and just fixed
a bug in user space that was caused by an unsigend < 0, and my mind was
on that.

Sorry for the noise here.

-- Steve