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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Incorrect value for SIGRTMAX
Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:


> b) it's casting the result of (foo > N) to unsigned which is nonsensical.
>
> Your patch doesn't address b).
>
> I don't thik there's a case in which sigev_signo can be negative anyway.
> But if there is, the cast should be done like the below, yes?
God! I hadn't catch this one :-) Actually, the cast is needed because
sigev_signo is an int, this catches the (all fobidden) negative values.

Your patch is the right one :-)
Eric

>
> kernel/posix-timers.c | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN kernel/posix-timers.c~SIGRTMAX-fix kernel/posix-timers.c
> --- 25/kernel/posix-timers.c~SIGRTMAX-fix 2004-01-24 14:27:13.000000000
> -0800
> +++ 25-akpm/kernel/posix-timers.c 2004-01-24 14:28:21.000000000 -0800
> @@ -344,8 +344,7 @@ static inline struct task_struct * good_
> return NULL;
>
> if ((event->sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_NONE & MIPS_SIGEV) &&
> - event->sigev_signo &&
> - ((unsigned) (event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX)))
> + (((unsigned)event->sigev_signo > SIGRTMAX) || !event->sigev_signo))
> return NULL;
>
> return rtn;
>

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