fs: nfsd: Fix signedness bug in compare_blob
Bugs similar to the one in acbbe6fb (kcmp: fix standard comparison bug) are in rich supply. In this variant, the problem is that struct xdr_netobj::len has type unsigned int, so the expression o1->len - o2->len _also_ has type unsigned int; it has completely well-defined semantics, and the result is some non-negative integer, which is always representable in a long long. But this means that if the conditional triggers, we are guaranteed to return a positive value from compare_blob. In this case it could be fixed by - res = o1->len - o2->len; + res = (long long)o1->len - (long long)o2->len; but I'd rather eliminate the usually broken 'return a - b;' idiom. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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