3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 77fa100f27475d08a569b9d51c17722130f089e7 upstream. If you encounter any errors in bch_cached_dev_attach it will return a negative error code. The variable 'v' which stores the result is unsigned, thus user space sees a very large value returned for bytes written which can cause incorrect user space behavior. Utilize 1 signed variable to use throughout the function to preserve error return capability. Signed-off-by: Tony Asleson <tasleson@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/sysfs.c @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ STORE(__cached_dev) { struct cached_dev *dc = container_of(kobj, struct cached_dev, disk.kobj); - unsigned v = size; + ssize_t v = size; struct cache_set *c; struct kobj_uevent_env *env; @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ STORE(__cached_dev) bch_cached_dev_run(dc); if (attr == &sysfs_cache_mode) { - ssize_t v = bch_read_string_list(buf, bch_cache_modes + 1); + v = bch_read_string_list(buf, bch_cache_modes + 1); if (v < 0) return v;