drivers: char: mem: fix IS_ERROR_VALUE usage
authorAndrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:35:21 +0000 (15:35 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:19:39 +0000 (12:19 -0800)
IS_ERR_VALUE macro should be used only with unsigned long type.
Specifically it works incorrectly with longer types.

The patch follows conclusion from discussion on LKML [1][2].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2120927
[2]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2150581

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/mem.c

index 4f6f94c43412c0773e176cf8d67acd73fb6ca274..71025c2f6bbb072ff27b1d21a4fdca544b5a2e97 100644 (file)
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static loff_t memory_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int orig)
                offset += file->f_pos;
        case SEEK_SET:
                /* to avoid userland mistaking f_pos=-9 as -EBADF=-9 */
-               if (IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long long)offset)) {
+               if ((unsigned long long)offset >= -MAX_ERRNO) {
                        ret = -EOVERFLOW;
                        break;
                }