On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

quoted text
> OK, if the main reason here is return value type, then the correct
> handling should be:
> 
> 	/* Reject out-of-range values early.  Large positive sizes are
> 	   used for unknown buffer sizes. */
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((int) size < 0))
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > INT_MAX)
> 		return 0;
> 
> This should catch all underflows and too big integers.
> 

That is equivalent since size_t is always unsigned; if you'd like to 
change it, it should be presented only as a style change.  More important 
would be writing a less cryptic comment :)
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