From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:35:39 +0000
Subject: [patch] 9p: fix min_t() casting
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To: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>, Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

The intent here was to cap the length to USHRT_MAX, but what the
code actually does is it just casts the return from strlen() to
unsigned short and truncates the significant bits away.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/net/9p/protocol.c b/net/9p/protocol.c
index 1e308f2..0422581 100644
--- a/net/9p/protocol.c
+++ b/net/9p/protocol.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ p9pdu_vwritef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int proto_version, const char *fmt,
 				const char *sptr = va_arg(ap, const char *);
 				uint16_t len = 0;
 				if (sptr)
-					len = min_t(uint16_t, strlen(sptr),
+					len = min_t(size_t, strlen(sptr),
 								USHRT_MAX);
 
 				errcode = p9pdu_writef(pdu, proto_version,