We're stuffing a variable of type size_t (unsigned) into a ssize_t
(signed) which, even though both types should be the same number of
bits, it's just asking for sign issues to be introduced.
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>