From c700be3d1320d2be4f04c8a5330186b7df724438 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:21:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages() "Smarter retry of costly-order allocations" patch series change behaver of do_try_to_free_pages(). But unfortunately ret variable type was unchanged. Thus an overflow is possible. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 9a29901ad3b3..967d30ccd92b 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) { int priority; - int ret = 0; + unsigned long ret = 0; unsigned long total_scanned = 0; unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0; struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state; -- 2.20.1