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* [patch] 9p: saving negative to unsigned char
@ 2010-03-30  9:42 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-03-30  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Van Hensbergen
  Cc: David S. Miller, Abhishek Kulkarni, Sripathi Kodi,
	Latchesar Ionkov, Venkateswararao Jujjuri, linux-kernel, netdev,
	kernel-janitors

Saving -EINVAL as unsigned char truncates the high bits and changes it 
into 234 instead of -22.  This breaks the test for "if (ret == -EINVAL)"
in parse_opts().

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

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index e3e5bf4..edf31aa 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ inline int p9_is_proto_dotu(struct p9_client *clnt)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(p9_is_proto_dotu);
 
 /* Interpret mount option for protocol version */
-static unsigned char get_protocol_version(const substring_t *name)
+static int get_protocol_version(const substring_t *name)
 {
-	unsigned char version = -EINVAL;
+	int version = -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!strncmp("9p2000", name->from, name->to-name->from)) {
 		version = p9_proto_legacy;
 		P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_9P, "Protocol version: Legacy\n");

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