From 650d3d8512c6c542d7c11ece049b46d5f2337ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ivan Vecera Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:18:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kernfs: fix regression in kernfs_fop_write caused by wrong type commit ba87977a49913129962af8ac35b0e13e0fa4382d upstream. Commit b7ce40cff0b9 ("kernfs: cache atomic_write_len in kernfs_open_file") changes type of local variable 'len' from ssize_t to size_t. This change caused that the *ppos value is updated also when the previous write callback failed. Mentioned snippet: ... len = ops->write(...); <- return value can be negative ... if (len > 0) <- true here in this case *ppos += len; ... Fixes: b7ce40cff0b9 ("kernfs: cache atomic_write_len in kernfs_open_file") Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c index 9698e51656b1..d8f49c412f50 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/file.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static ssize_t kernfs_fop_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, { struct kernfs_open_file *of = kernfs_of(file); const struct kernfs_ops *ops; - size_t len; + ssize_t len; char *buf; if (of->atomic_write_len) { -- 2.20.1