The simple attribute files do not accept a negative value since the commit 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()"). This restores the previous behaviour by using newly introduced DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE_SIGNED instead of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE. Fixes: 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()") Reported-by: Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> --- lib/notifier-error-inject.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/notifier-error-inject.c b/lib/notifier-error-inject.c index 21016b32d313..2b24ea6c9497 100644 --- a/lib/notifier-error-inject.c +++ b/lib/notifier-error-inject.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ static int debugfs_errno_get(void *data, u64 *val) return 0; } -DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_errno, debugfs_errno_get, debugfs_errno_set, +DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE_SIGNED(fops_errno, debugfs_errno_get, debugfs_errno_set, "%lld\n"); static struct dentry *debugfs_create_errno(const char *name, umode_t mode, -- 2.34.1