Re: [PATCH] scsi: srp_transport: Fix 'always false comparison' in srp_tmo_valid()

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Fri Jan 27 2017 - 14:46:31 EST


On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 10:06 +0000, Augusto Mecking Caringi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bart Van Assche
> <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch is wrong. The purpose of the dev_loss_tmo >= LONG_MAX / HZ check
> > is to avoid that the expression 1UL * dev_loss_tmo * HZ further down
> > overflows. Can you check whether changing the if-statement into if (1UL *
> > dev_loss_tmo >= LONG_MAX / HZ) also suppresses the compiler warning?
>
> Hi Bart,
>
> Right, now a I see...
>
> Doing your proposed change the warning go away...
>
> Do you want me to send a new patch for that?

Hello Augusto,

If you want your patch to go upstream you will have to repost it.

Bart.