This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipvs: use explicitly signed chars
to the 4.9-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-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a0d90b5a7c494e98b5cb01b6027d95831abb2e4a
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 ecde2102d1ad..c84290d7cc39 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
@@ -1240,8 +1240,8 @@ 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.
