From 891292a767c2453af0e5be9465e95b06b4b29ebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Palka Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:11:55 -0400 Subject: time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers sysfs_get_uname() is erroneously declared as returning size_t even though it may return a negative value, specifically -EINVAL. Its callers then check whether its return value is less than zero and indeed that is never the case for size_t. This patch changes sysfs_get_uname() to return ssize_t and makes sure its callers use ssize_t accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka [jstultz: Didn't apply cleanly, as a similar partial fix was also applied so had to resolve the collisions] Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h index bc906cad709b..18e71f7fbc2a 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ extern void tick_install_replacement(struct clock_event_device *dev); extern void clockevents_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *dev); -extern size_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt); +extern ssize_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt); /* * NO_HZ / high resolution timer shared code -- cgit v1.2.3