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    fs: nfsd: Fix signedness bug in compare_blob · 11e40402
    Rasmus Villemoes authored
    
    
    commit ef17af2a817db97d42dd2ec0a425231748e23dbc upstream.
    
    Bugs similar to the one in acbbe6fbb240 (kcmp: fix standard comparison
    bug) are in rich supply.
    
    In this variant, the problem is that struct xdr_netobj::len has type
    unsigned int, so the expression o1->len - o2->len _also_ has type
    unsigned int; it has completely well-defined semantics, and the result
    is some non-negative integer, which is always representable in a long
    long. But this means that if the conditional triggers, we are
    guaranteed to return a positive value from compare_blob.
    
    In this case it could be fixed by
    
    -       res = o1->len - o2->len;
    +       res = (long long)o1->len - (long long)o2->len;
    
    but I'd rather eliminate the usually broken 'return a - b;' idiom.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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