The patch titled Subject: kfifo: fix ternary sign extension bugs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kfifo: fix ternary sign extension bugs The intent with this code was to return negative error codes but instead it returns positives. The problem is how type promotion works with ternary operations. These functions return long, "ret" is an int and "copied" is a u32. The negative error code is first cast to u32 so it becomes a high positive and then cast to long where it's still a positive. We could fix this by declaring "ret" as a ssize_t but let's just get rid of the ternaries instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YIE+/cK1tBzSuQPU@mwanda Fixes: 5bf2b19320ec ("kfifo: add example files to the kernel sample directory") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c | 8 ++++++-- samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c | 8 ++++++-- samples/kfifo/record-example.c | 8 ++++++-- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c~kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs +++ a/samples/kfifo/bytestream-example.c @@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_write(struct file *f ret = kfifo_from_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&write_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, @@ -138,8 +140,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *fi ret = kfifo_to_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&read_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static const struct proc_ops fifo_proc_ops = { --- a/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c~kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs +++ a/samples/kfifo/inttype-example.c @@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_write(struct file *f ret = kfifo_from_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&write_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, @@ -131,8 +133,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *fi ret = kfifo_to_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&read_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static const struct proc_ops fifo_proc_ops = { --- a/samples/kfifo/record-example.c~kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs +++ a/samples/kfifo/record-example.c @@ -129,8 +129,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_write(struct file *f ret = kfifo_from_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&write_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, @@ -145,8 +147,10 @@ static ssize_t fifo_read(struct file *fi ret = kfifo_to_user(&test, buf, count, &copied); mutex_unlock(&read_lock); + if (ret) + return ret; - return ret ? ret : copied; + return copied; } static const struct proc_ops fifo_proc_ops = { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are kfifo-fix-ternary-sign-extension-bugs.patch