From efeb156e7275c5b6c6e0f96aceb3c6abf98fc392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:17:11 -0800 Subject: kprobes: silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following warning: In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573, from kernel/kprobes.c:55: In function 'copy_from_user', inlined from 'write_enabled_file_bool' at kernel/kprobes.c:2191: arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to see that buf_size can't become negative. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: David S. Miller Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index e5d84644823..95dd7212e61 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ static ssize_t write_enabled_file_bool(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { char buf[32]; - int buf_size; + size_t buf_size; buf_size = min(count, (sizeof(buf)-1)); if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size)) -- cgit v1.2.3