In this code "ret" is type long and "src_objlen" is unsigned int. The problem is that on 32bit systems, when we do the comparison signed longs are type promoted to unsigned int. So negative error codes from do_splice_direct() are treated as success instead of failure. Fixes: 1b0c3b9f91f0 ("ceph: re-org copy_file_range and fix some error paths") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 32bit is so weird and ancient. It's strange to think that unsigned int has more positive bits than signed long. fs/ceph/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/file.c b/fs/ceph/file.c index b1da02f5dbe3..b5f8038065d7 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/file.c +++ b/fs/ceph/file.c @@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@ static ssize_t __ceph_copy_file_range(struct file *src_file, loff_t src_off, ret = do_splice_direct(src_file, &src_off, dst_file, &dst_off, src_objlen, flags); /* Abort on short copies or on error */ - if (ret < src_objlen) { + if (ret < (long)src_objlen) { dout("Failed partial copy (%zd)\n", ret); goto out; } -- 2.39.2