ACK: [PATCH 26/26] lib: fwts_alloc: use ptrdiff_t to ensure non-mixed type comparison

Alex Hung alex.hung at canonical.com
Mon Oct 15 07:10:13 UTC 2012


On 10/15/2012 04:32 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> When comparing difference of two pointers we should compare to
> a ptrdiff_t to avoid any messy non-mixed type comparisons.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>   src/lib/src/fwts_alloc.c |    3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_alloc.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_alloc.c
> index 4495ad4..5c61478 100644
> --- a/src/lib/src/fwts_alloc.c
> +++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_alloc.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>   #include <string.h>
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   #include <unistd.h>
> +#include <stddef.h>
>
>   #include "fwts_alloc.h"
>
> @@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ static void *fwts_low_mmap(const size_t requested_size)
>
>   		if ((last_addr_end != NULL) &&
>   		    (last_addr_end < (void*)LIMIT_2GB)) {
> -			if ((addr_start - last_addr_end) > requested_size) {
> +			if ((addr_start - last_addr_end) > (ptrdiff_t)requested_size) {
>   				void *addr = last_addr_end;
>   				ret = mmap(addr, requested_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>   					MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>

Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>



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