On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 05:49:02AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 01:43:04AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > > > From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > commit b40b3e9358fbafff6a4ba0f4b9658f6617146f9c upstream > > > > > > 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> # 4.4 > > > > I also need a version of this patch for 4.18.y, 4.14.y, and 4.9.y before I will > > consider adding it to 4.4.y, as we do not want anyone to ever get a > > regression moving to a new kernel. > > Right, I've started from the wrong end. > Now I've posted the patches for the rest of the required long running versions. Thanks for all of these, now queued up. greg k-h
