[patch] sched: signedness bug in yield_to()

Dan Carpenter
2014-05-23T10:20:42Z

yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to
yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning
true.

The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9112646..7c72b14 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2173,7 +2173,7 @@ static inline void sched_autogroup_fork(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
static inline void sched_autogroup_exit(struct signal_struct *sig) { }
#endif

-extern bool yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
+extern int yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
extern void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice);
extern int task_prio(const struct task_struct *p);
/**
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 927fa33..40f8de4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4209,7 +4209,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield);
* false (0) if we failed to boost the target.
* -ESRCH if there's no task to yield to.
*/
-bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
+int __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
{
struct task_struct *curr = current;
struct rq *rq, *p_rq;
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 970c681..ec4e3bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ void mark_page_dirty(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);

void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
-bool kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target);
+int kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target);
void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_load_guest_fpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_put_guest_fpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 95b4c2b..9458196 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1713,11 +1713,11 @@ void kvm_vcpu_kick(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_kick);
#endif /* !CONFIG_S390 */

-bool kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
+int kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
{
struct pid *pid;
struct task_struct *task = NULL;
- bool ret = false;
+ int ret = 0;

rcu_read_lock();
pid = rcu_dereference(target->pid);