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: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/gc.c b/fs/jffs2/gc.c
index 090c556..3b6f2fa 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/gc.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/gc.c
@@ -700,7 +700,8 @@
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;