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nfsd: avoid undefined signed overflow

Message ID 1368821779-9046-1-git-send-email-rees@umich.edu (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Jim Rees May 17, 2013, 8:16 p.m. UTC
In C, signed integer overflow results in undefined behavior, but unsigned
overflow wraps around. So do the subtraction first, then cast to signed.

Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
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 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 316ec84..9850329 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -3427,7 +3427,7 @@  grace_disallows_io(struct net *net, struct inode *inode)
 /* Returns true iff a is later than b: */
 static bool stateid_generation_after(stateid_t *a, stateid_t *b)
 {
-	return (s32)a->si_generation - (s32)b->si_generation > 0;
+	return (s32)(a->si_generation - b->si_generation) > 0;
 }
 
 static __be32 check_stateid_generation(stateid_t *in, stateid_t *ref, bool has_session)