This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix a sign extension bug to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cifs-fix-a-sign-extension-bug.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f8fa6eb81209765f53acc34c5bb481c42fc6daf3 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 21 23:33:35 2021 +0300 cifs: fix a sign extension bug [ Upstream commit e946d3c887a9dc33aa82a349c6284f4a084163f4 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c index f46904a4ead3..67139f9d583f 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -3039,7 +3039,7 @@ 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);