netdev - Re: [patch] 9p: fix min

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Message-Id: <20110115.205208.104051310.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:52:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	error27@...il.com
Cc:	ericvh@...il.com, sripathik@...ibm.com, jvrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 9p: fix min_t() casting

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:35:39 +0300

> The intent here was to cap the length to USHRT_MAX, but what the
> code actually does is it just casts the return from strlen() to
> unsigned short and truncates the significant bits away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

If you want me to apply this, it doesn't apply cleanly to net-2.6
at all.
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