netdev - [PATCH 7/8] net: bridge: fix sign bug

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:47:33 +0400
From:	Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
To:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] net: bridge: fix sign bug

ipv6_skip_exthdr() can return error code that is below zero.
'offset' is unsigned, so it makes no sense.
ipv6_skip_exthdr() returns 'int' so we can painlessly change type of
offset to int.

Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index 27ae946..85afcda 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ static int br_multicast_ipv6_rcv(struct net_bridge *br,
 	struct icmp6hdr *icmp6h;
 	u8 nexthdr;
 	unsigned len;
-	unsigned offset;
+	int offset;
 	int err;
 
 	if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*ip6h)))
-- 
1.7.0.4

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