[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 010/237] powerpc: Fix signedness bug in update_flash_db()

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Sun Nov 17 02:37:25 AEDT 2019


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 014704e6f54189a203cc14c7c0bb411b940241bc ]

The "count < sizeof(struct os_area_db)" comparison is type promoted to
size_t so negative values of "count" are treated as very high values
and we accidentally return success instead of a negative error code.

This doesn't really change runtime much but it fixes a static checker
warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
index cdbfc5cfd6f38..f5387ad822798 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ static int update_flash_db(void)
 	db_set_64(db, &os_area_db_id_rtc_diff, saved_params.rtc_diff);
 
 	count = os_area_flash_write(db, sizeof(struct os_area_db), pos);
-	if (count < sizeof(struct os_area_db)) {
+	if (count < 0 || count < sizeof(struct os_area_db)) {
 		pr_debug("%s: os_area_flash_write failed %zd\n", __func__,
 			 count);
 		error = count < 0 ? count : -EIO;
-- 
2.20.1



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