The problem is the mismatched types between "ctx->total_len" which is
an unsigned int, "rc" which is an int, and "ctx->rc" which is a
ssize_t. The code does:
ctx->rc = (rc == 0) ? ctx->total_len : rc;
We want "ctx->rc" to store the negative "rc" error code. But what
happens is that "rc" is type promoted to a high unsigned int and
'ctx->rc" will store the high positive value instead of a negative
value.
The fix is to change "rc" from an int to a ssize_t.
Fixes: c610c4b619e5 ("CIFS: Add asynchronous write support through kernel AIO")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smbfs_client/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/smbfs_client/file.c b/fs/smbfs_client/file.c
index 4d10c9343890..7db9ddb3381f 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs_client/file.c
+++ b/fs/smbfs_client/file.c
@@ -3111,7 +3111,7 @@ static void collect_uncached_write_data(struct cifs_aio_ctx *ctx)
struct cifs_tcon *tcon;
struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb;
struct dentry *dentry = ctx->cfile->dentry;
- int rc;
+ ssize_t rc;
tcon = tlink_tcon(ctx->cfile->tlink);
cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(dentry->d_sb);
--
2.20.1
