The char buffer buf, receives data directly from user space, so its content might be negative and its elements are left shifted to form an unsigned integer. Since left shifting a negative value is undefined behavior, thus change the char to u8 to elimintate this UB. Signed-off-by: Changming Liu <charley.ashbringer@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200711043018.928-1-charley.ashbringer@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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