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Commit 38349665 authored by Andrzej Hajda's avatar Andrzej Hajda Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf tools: Fix handling read result using a signed variable

The function can return negative value, assigning it to unsigned
variable can cause memory corruption.

The problem has been detected using proposed semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/tests/unsigned_lesser_than_zero.cocci [1].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2038576



Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444122017-16856-1-git-send-email-a.hajda@samsung.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 1178bfd4
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