proc: avoid integer type confusion in get_proc_long
commit e6cfaf34be9fcd1a8285a294e18986bfc41a409c upstream.
proc_get_long() is passed a size_t, but then assigns it to an 'int'
variable for the length. Let's not do that, even if our IO paths are
limited to MAX_RW_COUNT (exactly because of these kinds of type errors).
So do the proper test in the rigth type.
Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 205d605..25b4442 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -340,13 +340,12 @@
unsigned long *val, bool *neg,
const char *perm_tr, unsigned perm_tr_len, char *tr)
{
- int len;
char *p, tmp[TMPBUFLEN];
+ ssize_t len = *size;
- if (!*size)
+ if (len <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
- len = *size;
if (len > TMPBUFLEN - 1)
len = TMPBUFLEN - 1;
