Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort

From: Matias BjÃrling
Date: Thu Nov 12 2015 - 13:57:29 EST


On 11/12/2015 07:42 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Matias BjÃrling <m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The max_phys_sect variable is defined as a char. We do a boundary check
to maximally allow 256 physical page descriptors per command. As we are
not indexing from zero. This expression is always in false. Bump the
max_phys_sect to an unsigned short to support the range check.

unsigned int?

Grah, I need to be more careful. I sent the wrong patch after I had fixed it to unsigned short.
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