efivarfs: Fix return value of efivarfs_file_write()

We're stuffing a variable of type size_t (unsigned) into a ssize_t
(signed) which, even though both types should be the same number of
bits, it's just asking for sign issues to be introduced.

Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 58cec627a821..9ac934018bba 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 	unsigned long datasize = count - sizeof(attributes);
 	unsigned long newdatasize;
+	ssize_t bytes = 0;
 
 	if (count < sizeof(attributes))
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -706,22 +707,22 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 	efivars = var->efivars;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(&attributes, userbuf, sizeof(attributes))) {
-		count = -EFAULT;
+		bytes = -EFAULT;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (attributes & ~(EFI_VARIABLE_MASK)) {
-		count = -EINVAL;
+		bytes = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (copy_from_user(data, userbuf + sizeof(attributes), datasize)) {
-		count = -EFAULT;
+		bytes = -EFAULT;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (validate_var(&var->var, data, datasize) == false) {
-		count = -EINVAL;
+		bytes = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -744,6 +745,8 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 		return efi_status_to_err(status);
 	}
 
+	bytes = count;
+
 	/*
 	 * Writing to the variable may have caused a change in size (which
 	 * could either be an append or an overwrite), or the variable to be
@@ -778,7 +781,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 out:
 	kfree(data);
 
-	return count;
+	return bytes;
 }
 
 static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,