jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection.
authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000 (03:27 +0000)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:27:20 +0000 (03:27 +0000)
Ever since jffs2_garbage_collect_metadata() was first half-written in
February 2001, it's been broken on architectures where 'char' is signed.
When garbage collecting a symlink with target length above 127, the payload
length would end up negative, causing interesting and bad things to happen.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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