Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib/mpi: Fixed erroneous check on return value ofmpi_resize()

From: James Morris
Date: Sun May 06 2012 - 21:27:36 EST


On Sat, 5 May 2012, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> Adarsh J wrote:
> > mpi_resize() returns -ENOMEM on error and 0 on success.
>
> Good catch.
>
> But it seems to me that mpi_fromstr() has no in-tree users.
> Also, mpi_fromstr() in RHEL 5.8/6.2 has no users.
> We forgot to exclude when adding MPI support?

If that's the case, then it should be removed.

(Removed root@ from cc:)

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adarsh J <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > index f26b41f..9949b69 100644
> > --- a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > +++ b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int mpi_fromstr(MPI val, const char *str)
> > nbytes = (nbits + 7) / 8;
> > nlimbs = (nbytes + BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - 1) / BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> > if (val->alloced < nlimbs)
> > - if (!mpi_resize(val, nlimbs))
> > + if (mpi_resize(val, nlimbs) < 0)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > i = BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - nbytes % BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> > i %= BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
>

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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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