+ kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: kfifo: fix kfifo_to_user() return type
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: kfifo: fix kfifo_to_user() return type
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:30:04 +0300

The kfifo_to_user() macro is supposed to return zero for success or
negative error codes.  Unfortunately, there is a signedness bug so it
returns unsigned int.  This only affects callers which try to save the
result in ssize_t and as far as I can see the only place which does that
is line6_hwdep_read().

TL;DR: s/_uint/_int/.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YrVL3OJVLlNhIMFs@kili
Fixes: 144ecf310eb5 ("kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/kfifo.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/kfifo.h~kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type
+++ a/include/linux/kfifo.h
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ __kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \
  * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these macro.
  */
 #define	kfifo_to_user(fifo, to, len, copied) \
-__kfifo_uint_must_check_helper( \
+__kfifo_int_must_check_helper( \
 ({ \
 	typeof((fifo) + 1) __tmp = (fifo); \
 	void __user *__to = (to); \
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

kfifo-fix-kfifo_to_user-return-type.patch