This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: make num_loops signed
to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:13:09 +0000 Subject: tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: make num_loops signed
Currently, num_loops is unsigned, but it's set by strtoll, which returns a (signed) long long int. This could lead to overflow, and it also makes the check "num_loops < 0" always be false, since num_loops is unsigned. Setting num_loops to -1 to loop forever is almost working because num_loops is getting set to a very high number, but it's technically still incorrect.
Fix this issue by making num_loops signed. This also fixes an error found by Smatch.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com Reported-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Fixes: 55dda0abcf9d ("tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: allow continuous looping") Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com --- tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c index 3040830d7797..84545666a09c 100644 --- a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c +++ b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static const struct option longopts[] = {
int main(int argc, char **argv) { - unsigned long long num_loops = 2; + long long num_loops = 2; unsigned long timedelay = 1000000; unsigned long buf_len = 128;