From: NeilBrown As suggested by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/md.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-change-a-few-int-to-size_t-in-md drivers/md/md.c --- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-change-a-few-int-to-size_t-in-md +++ a/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@ static ssize_t state_show(mdk_rdev_t *rdev, char *page) { char *sep = ""; - int len=0; + size_t len = 0; if (test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) { len+= sprintf(page+len, "%sfaulty",sep); @@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@ level_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page) static ssize_t level_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len) { - int rv = len; + ssize_t rv = len; if (mddev->pers) return -EBUSY; if (len == 0) @@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@ metadata_store(mddev_t *mddev, const cha return len; } if (strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) { - int namelen = len-9; + size_t namelen = len-9; if (namelen >= sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)) namelen = sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)-1; strncpy(mddev->metadata_type, buf+9, namelen); _