Re: [PATCH] xen: detect uninitialized xenbus in xenbus_init

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Nov 19 2021 - 03:24:29 EST


On 18.11.2021 23:24, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 11/18/21 4:00 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>
>> /*
>> * Avoid truncation on 32-bit.
>> * TODO: handle addresses >= 4G
>> */
>> if ( v >= ~0UL ) {
>> err = -EINVAL;
>> goto out_error;
>> }
>
>
> Since this is only relevant to 32-bit kernels then "#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32".

Plus then > instead of >= (thus also making the comment actually decribe
the code) and ULONG_MAX instead of ~0UL, I would say.

Jan