linux-kernel - [PATCH] firmware_class: Fix the file size check

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Date:	Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:53:59 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] firmware_class: Fix the file size check

We expect to read firmware blobs with a single call to kernel_read(),
which returns int.  Therefore the size must be within the range of
int, not long.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -270,21 +270,21 @@ module_param_string(path, fw_path_para,
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(path, "customized firmware image search path with a higher priority than default path");
 
 /* Don't inline this: 'struct kstat' is biggish */
-static noinline_for_stack long fw_file_size(struct file *file)
+static noinline_for_stack int fw_file_size(struct file *file)
 {
 	struct kstat st;
 	if (vfs_getattr(&file->f_path, &st))
 		return -1;
 	if (!S_ISREG(st.mode))
 		return -1;
-	if (st.size != (long)st.size)
+	if (st.size != (int)st.size)
 		return -1;
 	return st.size;
 }
 
 static bool fw_read_file_contents(struct file *file, struct firmware_buf *fw_buf)
 {
-	long size;
+	int size;
 	char *buf;
 
 	size = fw_file_size(file);

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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