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

I misunderstood what was going on here.

P.
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