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SubjectRe: [PATCH] genetlink: fix unsigned int comparison with less than zero
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On Thu, 2016-11-10 at 09:11 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com
> > wrote:
> >
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> >
> > family->id is unsigned, so the less than zero check for
> > failure return from idr_alloc is never true and so the error exit
> > is never handled.  Instead, assign err and check if this is less
> > than zero since this is a signed integer.
>
> Why family->id can't be just signed int? For me it should be.

I suppose it could be, since family IDs are allocated in a 16-bit range
anyway. But family IDs can also never actually be negative, so having
an unsigned int in the struct makes sense too.

I tend to think this patch is fine.

johannes

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