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>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 63dcaec..d3cd23f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
#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; \
})