From 2e16cfca6e17ae37ae21feca080a6f2eca9087dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection. Ever since jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata() was first half-written in February 2001, it's been broken on architectures where 'char' is signed. When garbage collecting a symlink with target length above 127, the payload length would end up negative, causing interesting and bad things to happen. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- fs/jffs2/gc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jffs2/gc.c b/fs/jffs2/gc.c index 090c556ffed2..3b6f2fa12cff 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/gc.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/gc.c @@ -700,7 +700,8 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_ struct jffs2_raw_inode ri; struct jffs2_node_frag *last_frag; union jffs2_device_node dev; - char *mdata = NULL, mdatalen = 0; + char *mdata = NULL; + int mdatalen = 0; uint32_t alloclen, ilen; int ret; -- 2.20.1