From: Patrick Palka Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:11:55 +0000 (-0400) Subject: time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=891292a767c2453af0e5be9465e95b06b4b29ebe;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers sysfs_get_uname() is erroneously declared as returning size_t even though it may return a negative value, specifically -EINVAL. Its callers then check whether its return value is less than zero and indeed that is never the case for size_t. This patch changes sysfs_get_uname() to return ssize_t and makes sure its callers use ssize_t accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka [jstultz: Didn't apply cleanly, as a similar partial fix was also applied so had to resolve the collisions] Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c index 38959c866789..30554b9fb1f7 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_unbind_tick_dev(struct device *dev, const char *buf, size_t count) { char name[CS_NAME_LEN]; - size_t ret = sysfs_get_uname(buf, name, count); + ssize_t ret = sysfs_get_uname(buf, name, count); struct clock_event_device *ce; if (ret < 0) diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index c9317e14aae6..ba3e502c955a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ sysfs_show_current_clocksources(struct device *dev, return count; } -size_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt) +ssize_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt) { size_t ret = cnt; diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h index bc906cad709b..18e71f7fbc2a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ extern void tick_install_replacement(struct clock_event_device *dev); extern void clockevents_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *dev); -extern size_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt); +extern ssize_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt); /* * NO_HZ / high resolution timer shared code