linux-kernel - [patch] dsp56k: prevent a harmless underflow

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:11:19 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] dsp56k: prevent a harmless underflow

There is a mistake here where we don't allow "len" to be zero but we
allow negative lengths.  It's basically harmless in this case, but the
underflow makes my static checker complain.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/char/dsp56k.c b/drivers/char/dsp56k.c
index 8bf70e8..50aa9ba 100644
--- a/drivers/char/dsp56k.c
+++ b/drivers/char/dsp56k.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static long dsp56k_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 			if(get_user(bin, &binary->bin) < 0)
 				return -EFAULT;
 		
-			if (len == 0) {
+			if (len <= 0) {
 				return -EINVAL;      /* nothing to upload?!? */
 			}
 			if (len > DSP56K_MAX_BINARY_LENGTH) {