netdev - Re: [PATCH] genetlink: fix unsigned int comparison with less than zero

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpWSVtkzNYZTc_He+8QxorOhNKRTyQd6qXVGb7Tvihj5tQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:29:42 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@...onical.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genetlink: fix unsigned int comparison with less than zero

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:15 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> I've commited the following to net-next:
>
> ====================
> [PATCH] genetlink: Make family a signed integer.
>
> The idr_alloc(), idr_remove(), et al. routines all expect IDs to be
> signed integers.  Therefore make the genl_family member 'id' signed
> too.

This is exactly what I replied to Johannes.

Thanks for the fix!