ipc: fix compat msgrcv with negative msgtyp

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 <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Gabriellla Schmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Mateusz Guzik 2014-01-27 17:07:11 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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: