[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/powernv: Fix sysparam sysfs error handling

[Joel Stanley]

When a sysparam query in OPAL returned a negative value (error code),
sysfs would spew out a decent chunk of memory; almost 64K more than
expected. This was traced to a sign/unsigned mix up in the OPAL sysparam
sysfs code at sys_param_show.

The return value of sys_param_show is a ssize_t, calculated using

  return ret ? ret : attr->param_size;

Alan Modra explains:

  "attr->param_size" is an unsigned int, "ret" an int, so the overall
  expression has type unsigned int.  Result is that ret is cast to
  unsigned int before being cast to ssize_t.

Instead of using the ternary operator, set ret to the param_size if an
error is not detected. The same bug exists in the sysfs write callback;
this patch fixes it in the same way.

A note on debugging this next time: on my system gcc will warn about
this if compiled with -Wsign-compare, which is not enabled by -Wall,
only -Wextra.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
index 0bd249a..cdaf145 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ static ssize_t sys_param_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 
 	memcpy(buf, param_data_buf, attr->param_size);
 
+	ret = attr->param_size;
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&opal_sysparam_mutex);
-	return ret ? ret : attr->param_size;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static ssize_t sys_param_store(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -138,7 +139,9 @@ static ssize_t sys_param_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	ret = opal_set_sys_param(attr->param_id, attr->param_size,
 			param_data_buf);
 	mutex_unlock(&opal_sysparam_mutex);
-	return ret ? ret : count;
+	if (!ret)
+		ret = count;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 void __init opal_sys_param_init(void)
-- 
1.9.1