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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2015-05-06 15:09:40 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-05-09 16:46:18 -0400
commit3e4336a65ab6b45cbac10b8347c8f8951fec515d (patch)
treeebfc4cd7b8b50fb768acd181bdeee24badfb9bbc /drivers
parent240b23c4269777abba4eba43acd1f53ec530bb7d (diff)
downloadlinux-3e4336a65ab6b45cbac10b8347c8f8951fec515d.tar.gz
usbnet: avoid integer overflow in start_xmit
transfer_buffer_length is of type u32. It's therefore wrong to assign it
to a signed integer. This patch avoids the overflow.

It's worth noting that entry->length here is a long; perhaps it would be
beneficial at somepoint to change this to be unsigned as well, if
nothing else relies on its signedness for error conditions or the like.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 733f4feb2ef3..3c86b107275a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ netdev_tx_t usbnet_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
 				     struct net_device *net)
 {
 	struct usbnet		*dev = netdev_priv(net);
-	int			length;
+	unsigned int			length;
 	struct urb		*urb = NULL;
 	struct skb_data		*entry;
 	struct driver_info	*info = dev->driver_info;
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ not_drop:
 		}
 	} else
 		netif_dbg(dev, tx_queued, dev->net,
-			  "> tx, len %d, type 0x%x\n", length, skb->protocol);
+			  "> tx, len %u, type 0x%x\n", length, skb->protocol);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
 deferred:
 #endif