netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: fix signedness bug in skb_splice_from

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 14:17:38 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
    Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
    Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
    Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>,
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
    Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
    Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
    netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: fix signedness bug in skb_splice_from_iter()

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:

>  	while (iter->count > 0) {
>  		ssize_t space, nr;
> -		size_t off, len;
> +		ssize_t len;
> +		size_t off;

Good point, but why not just move len onto the preceding line?

 	while (iter->count > 0) {
-		ssize_t space, nr;
-		size_t off, len;
+		ssize_t space, nr, len;
+		size_t off;

David