[v2] mm: shmem: Fix variable type to int to evaluate negative conditions

Commit Message

Karan Sanghavi Nov. 27, 2024, 6:07 p.m. UTC

Use signed data type for version handling
in shmem_parse_opt_casefold()

Fixes: 58e55efd6c72 ("tmpfs: Add casefold lookup support")
Reviewed-by: André Almeida <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Karan Sanghavi <[e-mail]>
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Coverity Message:
CID 1601569: (#1 of 1): Unsigned compared against 0 (NO_EFFECT)
unsigned_compare: This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned 
value is never true. version < 0U

Coverity Link:
https://scan7.scan.coverity.com/#/project-view/10043/11354?selectedIssue=1601569
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Changes in v2:
- Updated the log summary.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
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 mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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base-commit: 6d59cab07b8d74d0f0422b750038123334f6ecc2
change-id: 20241111-unsignedcompare1601569-05b5932145ef

Best regards,

Patch

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 7987deb2be9b..17a1d4fa8870 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4367,7 +4367,7 @@  static int shmem_parse_opt_casefold(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *
 				    bool latest_version)
 {
 	struct shmem_options *ctx = fc->fs_private;
-	unsigned int version = UTF8_LATEST;
+	int version = UTF8_LATEST;
 	struct unicode_map *encoding;
 	char *version_str = param->string + 5;