This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring/net: correct the type of variable to the 6.1-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: io_uring-net-correct-the-type-of-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9193c7c324f4db41897d17ceaaae71e9e447cd80 Author: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 1 19:43:48 2024 +0500 io_uring/net: correct the type of variable [ Upstream commit 86bcacc957fc2d0403aa0e652757eec59a5fd7ca ] The namelen is of type int. It shouldn't be made size_t which is unsigned. The signed number is needed for error checking before use. Fixes: c55978024d12 ("io_uring/net: move receive multishot out of the generic msghdr path") Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301144349.2807544-1-usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/io_uring/net.c b/io_uring/net.c index 9fc0ffb0b6c12..0d4ee3d738fbf 100644 --- a/io_uring/net.c +++ b/io_uring/net.c @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ int io_send(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags) static int io_recvmsg_mshot_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, struct io_async_msghdr *iomsg, - size_t namelen, size_t controllen) + int namelen, size_t controllen) { if ((req->flags & (REQ_F_APOLL_MULTISHOT|REQ_F_BUFFER_SELECT)) == (REQ_F_APOLL_MULTISHOT|REQ_F_BUFFER_SELECT)) {