mtd: nand: use ssize_t instead of size_t to prevent infinite loop
When a all 0xFF buffer is passed to drop_ffs, the no-0xFF check loop
will loop forever.
After the fix, If ssize_t i = -1 and size_t l = i + 1, the value of l
will still be 0 as expected.
Signed-off-by: Tao Hou <hotforest@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
index 4727f9c..fe8bdeb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@
static size_t drop_ffs(const nand_info_t *nand, const u_char *buf,
const size_t *len)
{
- size_t i, l = *len;
+ size_t l = *len;
+ ssize_t i;
for (i = l - 1; i >= 0; i--)
if (buf[i] != 0xFF)