Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: target: fix unsigned comparision with less than zero

From: Mike Christie
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 13:15:50 EST


On 03/20/2019 12:14 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 03/20/2019 11:37 AM, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Currently an error return is being assigned to an unsigned
>> size_t varianle and then checked if the result is less than
>> zero which will always be false. Fix this by making ret
>
> What kernel version was this made against?
>
> For Martin's 5.2 queue branch, with these scsi changes it looks like
> strlcpy returns a size_t. And then below it looks like we compare the
> return value from that function to the buffer size and the max len of
> the string we support. We do not seem to check for less than zero.
>
>

My mistake. I was looking at len and not ret.

Patch looks ok to me.

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>