proc/vmcore: fix signedness bug in read_from_oldmem()

The bug is the error handling:

	if (tmp < nr_bytes) {

"tmp" can hold negative error codes but because "nr_bytes" is type size_t
the negative error codes are treated as very high positive values
(success).  Fix this by changing "nr_bytes" to type ssize_t.  The
"nr_bytes" variable is used to store values between 1 and PAGE_SIZE and
they can fit in ssize_t without any issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b55f7eed-1c65-4adc-95d1-6c7c65a54a6e@moroto.mountain
Fixes: 5d8de293c224 ("vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
index cb80a7703d58ea3fcbed6f45f7353c02209a1db8..1fb213f379a5b6bdaa296086d75c23447032e759 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(struct iov_iter *iter, size_t count,
                         u64 *ppos, bool encrypted)
 {
        unsigned long pfn, offset;
-       size_t nr_bytes;
+       ssize_t nr_bytes;
        ssize_t read = 0, tmp;
        int idx;