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[ Upstream commit 2e41f274f9aa71cdcc69dc1f26a3f9304a651804 ]
Patch series "fix error when writing negative value to simple attribute
files".
The simple attribute files do not accept a negative value since the commit
488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in
simple_attr_write()"), but some attribute files want to accept a negative
value.
This patch (of 3):
The simple attribute files do not accept a negative value since the commit
488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in
simple_attr_write()"), so we have to use a 64-bit value to write a
negative value.
This adds DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE_SIGNED for a signed value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919172418.45257-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919172418.45257-2-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Fixes: 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()")
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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