Commit 2e16cfca authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse

jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection.

Ever since jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata() was first half-written in
February 2001, it's been broken on architectures where 'char' is signed.
When garbage collecting a symlink with target length above 127, the payload
length would end up negative, causing interesting and bad things to happen.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
parent 0a032a4d
......@@ -700,7 +700,8 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_
struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
struct jffs2_node_frag *last_frag;
union jffs2_device_node dev;
char *mdata = NULL, mdatalen = 0;
char *mdata = NULL;
int mdatalen = 0;
uint32_t alloclen, ilen;
int ret;
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