netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Fix iteration variable sign

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Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:20:39 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
CC:	torvalds@...l.org, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Fix iteration variable sign

Francois Romieu wrote:
> This changes the type of variable "i" in rtl8169_init_one()
> from "unsigned int" to "int". "i" is checked for < 0 later,
> which can never happen for "unsigned". This results in broken
> error handling.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>

ACK but doesn't seem to apply to 2.6.19?

should this go into #upstream rather than #upstream-fixes?


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