The `char` type with no explicit sign is sometimes signed and sometimes unsigned. This code will break on platforms such as arm, where char is unsigned. So mark it here as explicitly signed, so that the todrop_counter decrement and subsequent comparison is correct.
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Cc: Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg Cc: Simon Horman horms@verge.net.au Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c index 8c04bb57dd6f..7c4866c04343 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c @@ -1249,40 +1249,40 @@ static const struct seq_operations ip_vs_conn_sync_seq_ops = { .next = ip_vs_conn_seq_next, .stop = ip_vs_conn_seq_stop, .show = ip_vs_conn_sync_seq_show, }; #endif
/* Randomly drop connection entries before running out of memory * Can be used for DATA and CTL conns. For TPL conns there are exceptions: * - traffic for services in OPS mode increases ct->in_pkts, so it is supported * - traffic for services not in OPS mode does not increase ct->in_pkts in * all cases, so it is not supported */ static inline int todrop_entry(struct ip_vs_conn *cp) { /* * The drop rate array needs tuning for real environments. * Called from timer bh only => no locking */ - static const char todrop_rate[9] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}; - static char todrop_counter[9] = {0}; + static const signed char todrop_rate[9] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}; + static signed char todrop_counter[9] = {0}; int i;
/* if the conn entry hasn't lasted for 60 seconds, don't drop it. This will leave enough time for normal connection to get through. */ if (time_before(cp->timeout + jiffies, cp->timer.expires + 60*HZ)) return 0;
/* Don't drop the entry if its number of incoming packets is not located in [0, 8] */ i = atomic_read(&cp->in_pkts); if (i > 8 || i < 0) return 0;
if (!todrop_rate[i]) return 0; if (--todrop_counter[i] > 0) return 0;
todrop_counter[i] = todrop_rate[i]; return 1; }