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authorRolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>2009-09-22 16:44:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-23 07:39:30 -0700
commita49c59c042c63b432307c1bbf7dac5a104c786e6 (patch)
tree443f9fab6d8907dec07a6c83fee2812c4bf43245
parentd7d7561c908afa001ab0fc8212eee94731a213a6 (diff)
Make sure the value in abs() does not get truncated if it is greater than 2^32
abs() will truncate the input if is it outside the 2^32 range. Fix that by assuming `long' input. This might generate worse code in the common case. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 63dcaece1ac..d3cd23f3003 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
#define abs(x) ({ \
- int __x = (x); \
+ long __x = (x); \
(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \
})