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| author | Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2012-10-26 12:18:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2012-10-30 10:39:28 +0000 |
| commit | cfcf2f11708f934d2bd294f973c2fcb0cc54f293 (patch) | |
| tree | f92e907f7e56bcf7617c9b56b9bd88450b61729a /drivers/firmware | |
| parent | aeeaa8d46aa38c9cc5fac23feb9b1f91bdbf5dd3 (diff) | |
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efivarfs: Fix return value of efivarfs_file_write()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c index 58cec627a821..9ac934018bba 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file, 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(struct file *file, 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(struct file *file, 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(struct file *file, out: kfree(data); - return count; + return bytes; } static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf, |