This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: bus: type promotion bug in mei_nfc_if_version() to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From b40b3e9358fbafff6a4ba0f4b9658f6617146f9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:29:31 +0300 Subject: mei: bus: type promotion bug in mei_nfc_if_version() We accidentally removed the check for negative returns without considering the issue of type promotion. The "if_version_length" variable is type size_t so if __mei_cl_recv() returns a negative then "bytes_recv" is type promoted to a high positive value and treated as success. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 582ab27a063a ("mei: bus: fix received data size check in NFC fixup") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c index e45fe826d87d..65e28be3c8cc 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static int mei_nfc_if_version(struct mei_cl *cl, ret = 0; bytes_recv = __mei_cl_recv(cl, (u8 *)reply, if_version_length, 0, 0); - if (bytes_recv < if_version_length) { + if (bytes_recv < 0 || bytes_recv < if_version_length) { dev_err(bus->dev, "Could not read IF version\n"); ret = -EIO; goto err; -- 2.18.0