[PATCH 6.4 199/239] proc/vmcore: fix signedness bug in read_from_oldmem()

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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;
 





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