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ipc: fix compat msgrcv with negative msgtyp

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Compat function takes msgtyp argument as u32 and passes it down to
do_msgrcv which results in casting to long, thus the sign is lost and we
get a big positive number instead.

Cast the argument to signed type before passing it down.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Gabriellla Schmidt <gsc@bruker.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mateusz Guzik 2014-01-27 17:07:11 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ffa571dafb
commit e7ca255236
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@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(ipc, u32, call, int, first, int, second,
uptr = compat_ptr(ipck.msgp);
fifth = ipck.msgtyp;
}
return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, fifth, third,
return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, (s32)fifth, third,
compat_do_msg_fill);
}
case MSGGET: