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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fix
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:03:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ljcylymv.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004080839350.3544@i5.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>  
>> -	if (len < nr_cpu_ids)
>> +	if ((len * BITS_PER_BYTE) < nr_cpu_ids)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>
> Not that it really matters, but this will now fail for no good reason if 
> you pass it a half-gigabyte area due to overflow.

Which can easily be avoided.

	if (len < DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_cpu_ids, BITS_PER_BYTE))

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 15:38 [GIT PULL] scheduler fix Ingo Molnar
2010-04-08 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-08 16:03   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-04-08 18:26     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-04-08 18:36       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-08 18:52         ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-10-01  8:43 Ingo Molnar
2023-10-01 17:08 ` pr-tracker-bot
2023-09-22 10:26 Ingo Molnar
2023-09-22 20:19 ` pr-tracker-bot
2021-06-24  7:06 Ingo Molnar
2021-06-24 16:34 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-12-27  9:16 Ingo Molnar
2020-12-27 17:27 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-03-02  7:51 Ingo Molnar
2020-03-03 23:35 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-12-17 11:54 Ingo Molnar
2019-12-17 19:20 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-07-14 10:19 Ingo Molnar
2019-07-14 18:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-05-05 11:02 Ingo Molnar
2019-05-05 22:10 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-04-27 14:39 Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 18:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-04-12 13:08 Ingo Molnar
2019-04-13  4:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-12-31 14:58 Ingo Molnar
2018-12-31 18:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-11-17 10:57 Ingo Molnar
2018-11-18 20:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-10-11  9:12 Ingo Molnar
2018-10-11 12:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-11  9:02 Ingo Molnar
2018-01-17 15:34 Ingo Molnar
2017-10-27 19:16 Ingo Molnar
2016-12-07 18:48 Ingo Molnar
2016-10-28  8:35 Ingo Molnar
2016-10-19 15:52 Ingo Molnar
2016-10-18 11:17 Ingo Molnar
2016-09-13 18:17 Ingo Molnar
2016-07-14 18:56 Ingo Molnar
2016-05-13 18:54 Ingo Molnar
2016-05-06 11:31 Ingo Molnar
2015-07-18  2:56 Ingo Molnar
2015-03-28 13:45 Ingo Molnar
2014-01-15 18:19 Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 18:08 Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 12:58 Ingo Molnar
2012-05-17  8:46 Ingo Molnar
2012-03-02 10:57 Ingo Molnar
2012-02-27 10:29 Ingo Molnar
2011-04-07 17:38 Ingo Molnar
2011-03-18 13:52 Ingo Molnar
2011-03-10  8:01 Ingo Molnar
2011-01-24 13:07 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 16:03 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-08 19:01 Ingo Molnar
2009-05-05  9:35 Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17 16:40 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2009-02-04 19:18 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-07 22:26 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-07 23:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-08  7:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-04 19:41 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 15:07 Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 10:33 Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 20:39 [git pull] scheduler fixes Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 23:34 ` [git pull] scheduler fix Ingo Molnar
2007-10-30 10:15   ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-11-01  8:39     ` Ingo Molnar

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