Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: ch341: type promotion bug in ch341_control_in()

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On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:29:38PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "r" variable is an int and "bufsize" is an unsigned int so the
> comparison is type promoted to unsigned.  If usb_control_msg() returns a
> negative that is treated as a high positive value and the error handling
> doesn't work.
> 
> Fixes: 2d5a9c72d0c4 ("USB: serial: ch341: fix control-message error handling")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching this.

Now applied with a stable tag as this could have security implications.

Johan
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