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git.openfabrics.org - ~emulex/infiniband.git/commit
kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code
such as
if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) {
error
}
will fail to detect the error.
So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>