From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:42:25 +0000 Subject: [patch -next] rds: signedness bug Message-Id: <20100918234224.GC6236@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andy Grover Cc: "David S. Miller" , rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org In the original code if the copy_from_user() fails in rds_rdma_pages() then the error handling fails and we get a stack trace from kmalloc(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/rds/rdma.c b/net/rds/rdma.c index 4806467..1a41deb 100644 --- a/net/rds/rdma.c +++ b/net/rds/rdma.c @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ int rds_cmsg_rdma_args(struct rds_sock *rs, struct rds_message *rm, struct rds_rdma_args *args; struct rds_iovec vec; struct rm_rdma_op *op = &rm->rdma; - unsigned int nr_pages; + int nr_pages; unsigned int nr_bytes; struct page **pages = NULL; struct rds_iovec __user *local_vec;