This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipvs: use explicitly signed chars to the 5.4-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: ipvs-use-explicitly-signed-chars.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8b7b8f5667eb0ac128d5951158ac9ff03de094be Author: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 26 14:32:16 2022 +0200 ipvs: use explicitly signed chars [ Upstream commit 5c26159c97b324dc5174a5713eafb8c855cf8106 ] The `char` type with no explicit sign is sometimes signed and sometimes unsigned. This code will break on platforms such as arm, where char is unsigned. So mark it here as explicitly signed, so that the todrop_counter decrement and subsequent comparison is correct. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c index a189079a6ea5..e913ab0096cb 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c @@ -1225,8 +1225,8 @@ static inline int todrop_entry(struct ip_vs_conn *cp) * The drop rate array needs tuning for real environments. * Called from timer bh only => no locking */ - static const char todrop_rate[9] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}; - static char todrop_counter[9] = {0}; + static const signed char todrop_rate[9] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}; + static signed char todrop_counter[9] = {0}; int i; /* if the conn entry hasn't lasted for 60 seconds, don't drop it.