On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:15:51 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:

quoted text
> On Friday, August 8, 2008 8:18 am Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> > @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline unsigned int dma_set_max_seg_size(struct
> > device
> >  static inline unsigned long dma_get_seg_boundary(struct device *dev)
> >  {
> >         return dev->dma_parms ?
> > -               dev->dma_parms->segment_boundary_mask : 0xffffffff;
> > +               dev->dma_parms->segment_boundary_mask : 0xffffffffUL;
> >  }
> 
> Yeah generally you need to cast values like this when working with real 
> unsigned long values rather than ints, but this *should* still be safe 
> (barring a compiler bug).  The return type is unsigned long, so even if you 
> just return 0xffffffff the right thing should still happen...

I told Prarid that the overflow should not happen here again and
again...
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