Re: [PATCH 1/2][next] RDMA/hns: fix comparison of unsigned long variable 'end' with less than zero

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Jul 24 2019 - 15:32:54 EST


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:21:00AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the comparison of end with less than zero is always false
> because end is an unsigned long. Also, replace checks of end with
> non-zero with end > 0 as it is possible that the #defined decrement
> may be changed in the future causing end to step over zero and go
> negative.
>
> The initialization of end with 0 is also redundant as this value is
> never read and is later set to HW_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MSECS, so fix this by
> initializing it with this value to begin with.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: 669cefb654cb ("RDMA/hns: Remove jiffies operation in disable interrupt context")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hem.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hw_v1.c | 12 ++++++------
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason