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[net-next,04/12] i40e: Use signed variable

Message ID 20190613185347.16361-5-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2019-06-13 | expand

Commit Message

Kirsher, Jeffrey T June 13, 2019, 6:53 p.m. UTC 
From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>

The counter variable in i40e_clean_tx_irq starts out negative and climbs
to 0. So it should not be defined as a u16. This was working by accident
due to the fact the u16 overflows and underflows predictably.

Replace the u16 with int, which is signed and can handle the negativity.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 20a283702c9f..2a2fe3ec7926 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@  void i40e_detect_recover_hung(struct i40e_vsi *vsi)
 static bool i40e_clean_tx_irq(struct i40e_vsi *vsi,
 			      struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int napi_budget)
 {
-	u16 i = tx_ring->next_to_clean;
+	int i = tx_ring->next_to_clean;
 	struct i40e_tx_buffer *tx_buf;
 	struct i40e_tx_desc *tx_head;
 	struct i40e_tx_desc *tx_desc;