* [PATCH][next] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix less than zero comparison on a size_t variable
@ 2025-06-24 20:10 Colin Ian King
2025-06-24 21:10 ` Ira Weiny
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Colin Ian King @ 2025-06-24 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rafael J . Wysocki, Len Brown, James Morse, Tony Luck,
Borislav Petkov, Zaid Alali, Ira Weiny, linux-acpi
Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel
The check for c < 0 is always false because variable c is a size_t which
is not a signed type. Fix this by making c a ssize_t.
Fixes: 90711f7bdf76 ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Create debugfs files to enter device id and syndrome")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
---
drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
index d6d7e36e3647..7930acd1d3f3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj-core.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ static ssize_t u128_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf, size_t count,
u8 tmp[COMPONENT_LEN];
char byte[3] = {};
char *s, *e;
- size_t c;
+ ssize_t c;
long val;
int i;
--
2.50.0
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* Re: [PATCH][next] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix less than zero comparison on a size_t variable
2025-06-24 20:10 [PATCH][next] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix less than zero comparison on a size_t variable Colin Ian King
@ 2025-06-24 21:10 ` Ira Weiny
2025-06-26 18:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ira Weiny @ 2025-06-24 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Colin Ian King, Rafael J . Wysocki, Len Brown, James Morse,
Tony Luck, Borislav Petkov, Zaid Alali, Ira Weiny, linux-acpi
Cc: kernel-janitors, linux-kernel
Colin Ian King wrote:
> The check for c < 0 is always false because variable c is a size_t which
> is not a signed type. Fix this by making c a ssize_t.
>
> Fixes: 90711f7bdf76 ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Create debugfs files to enter device id and syndrome")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
[snip]
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* Re: [PATCH][next] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix less than zero comparison on a size_t variable
2025-06-24 21:10 ` Ira Weiny
@ 2025-06-26 18:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2025-06-26 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ira Weiny, Colin Ian King
Cc: Len Brown, James Morse, Tony Luck, Borislav Petkov, Zaid Alali,
linux-acpi, kernel-janitors, linux-kernel
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Colin Ian King wrote:
> > The check for c < 0 is always false because variable c is a size_t which
> > is not a signed type. Fix this by making c a ssize_t.
> >
> > Fixes: 90711f7bdf76 ("ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Create debugfs files to enter device id and syndrome")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Applied, thanks!
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