From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Git-commit: cfcf2f11708f934d2bd294f973c2fcb0cc54f293 Patch-mainline: v3.8 References: bnc#808680 Target: openSUSE 12.3 We're stuffing a variable of type size_t (unsigned) into a ssize_t (signed) which, even though both types should be the same number of bits, it's just asking for sign issues to be introduced. Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> --- drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; unsigned long datasize = count - sizeof(attributes); unsigned long newdatasize; + ssize_t bytes = 0; if (count < sizeof(attributes)) return -EINVAL; @@ -706,22 +707,22 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc efivars = var->efivars; if (copy_from_user(&attributes, userbuf, sizeof(attributes))) { - count = -EFAULT; + bytes = -EFAULT; goto out; } if (attributes & ~(EFI_VARIABLE_MASK)) { - count = -EINVAL; + bytes = -EINVAL; goto out; } if (copy_from_user(data, userbuf + sizeof(attributes), datasize)) { - count = -EFAULT; + bytes = -EFAULT; goto out; } if (validate_var(&var->var, data, datasize) == false) { - count = -EINVAL; + bytes = -EINVAL; goto out; } @@ -744,6 +745,8 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc return efi_status_to_err(status); } + bytes = count; + /* * Writing to the variable may have caused a change in size (which * could either be an append or an overwrite), or the variable to be @@ -778,7 +781,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc out: kfree(data); - return count; + return bytes; } static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org