From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 641db40f3afe7998011bfabc726dba3e698f8196 upstream. The bug is the error handling: if (tmp < nr_bytes) { "tmp" can hold negative error codes but because "nr_bytes" is type size_t the negative error codes are treated as very high positive values (success). Fix this by changing "nr_bytes" to type ssize_t. The "nr_bytes" variable is used to store values between 1 and PAGE_SIZE and they can fit in ssize_t without any issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b55f7eed-1c65-4adc-95d1-6c7c65a54a6e@moroto.mountain Fixes: 5d8de293c224 ("vmcore: convert copy_oldmem_page() to take an iov_iter") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/vmcore.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ ssize_t read_from_oldmem(struct iov_iter u64 *ppos, bool encrypted) { unsigned long pfn, offset; - size_t nr_bytes; + ssize_t nr_bytes; ssize_t read = 0, tmp; int idx;