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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.7-mm1] sysfs - possible bug
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:08:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040626190835.68eb63cb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040627065816.11c3e28d.luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>

Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> wrote:
>
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> This code causes some problems:
> 
> static ssize_t sn9c102_show_i2c_val(struct class_device* cd, char* buf)
> {
> 	return -EIO;
> }
> static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(i2c_val, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, sn9c102_show_i2c_val, sn9c102_store_i2c_val);

Indeed it does.

> kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/file.c:93!

	BUG_ON(count > PAGE_SIZE);

isn't right, because PAGE_SIZE is unsigned.

I'll send the below fix to Linus.

--- 25/fs/sysfs/file.c~sysfs-fill_read_buffer-fix	2004-06-26 19:03:11.821870464 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/sysfs/file.c	2004-06-26 19:03:20.119609016 -0700
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static int fill_read_buffer(struct file 
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	count = ops->show(kobj,attr,buffer->page);
-	BUG_ON(count > PAGE_SIZE);
+	BUG_ON(count > (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE);
 	if (count >= 0)
 		buffer->count = count;
 	else
_


      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-27  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-27  4:58 Luca Risolia
2004-06-27  2:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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