Re: [stable] [PATCH] FS-Cache: Fix bounds check

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 13 2011 - 16:43:37 EST


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:55:18PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages() has a loop that goes through page index
> numbers go up to (loff_t)-1. This is incorrect. The limit should be
> (pgoff_t)-1 as on a 32-bit machine the pgoff_t is smaller than loff_t.
>
> On m68k the following error is observed:
>
> fs/fscache/page.c: In function '__fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages':
> fs/fscache/page.c:979: warning: comparison is always false due to
> limited range of data type
>
> [Should there be a PGOFF_T_MAX constant defined?]
>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> fs/fscache/page.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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