kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code such as if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) { error } will fail to detect the error. So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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