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Commit 52c51712 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()



This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code
such as

	if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) {
		error
	}

will fail to detect the error.

So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1b627d57
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