[PATCH] drivers/net/macvtap: fix error check

From: Nicolas Kaiser
Date: Fri Mar 04 2011 - 20:14:01 EST


'len' is unsigned of type size_t and can't be negative.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
index 5933621..fc27a99 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
@@ -528,8 +528,9 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_get_user(struct macvtap_queue *q,
vnet_hdr_len = q->vnet_hdr_sz;

err = -EINVAL;
- if ((len -= vnet_hdr_len) < 0)
+ if (len < vnet_hdr_len)
goto err;
+ len -= vnet_hdr_len;

err = memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&vnet_hdr, iv, 0,
sizeof(vnet_hdr));
--
1.7.3.4
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