[PATCH] drivers: use IS_ERR_VALUE() in memory_lseek()

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Wed Jun 05 2013 - 13:09:56 EST


Use IS_ERR_VALUE() instead of comparing the new offset to a hard-coded
value of -MAX_ERRNO (which is also off-by-one due to the use of ~
instead of -).

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/mem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 1ccbe94..2ca6d78 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ static loff_t memory_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
offset += file->f_pos;
case SEEK_SET:
/* to avoid userland mistaking f_pos=-9 as -EBADF=-9 */
- if ((unsigned long long)offset >= ~0xFFFULL) {
+ if (IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long long)offset)) {
ret = -EOVERFLOW;
break;
}
--
1.7.9.5

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