From 3737b28a9d014a0d0cf6a072f874990e771e06a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:24:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] LU-10003 lnet: to properly handle errors reported use ssize_t

The function nla_strscpy() can return a negative error value.
Replace using size_t with ssize_t to handle potential error
states.

Test-Parameters: trivial
Fixes: 8f8f6e2f3 ("LU-10003 lnet: use Netlink to support old and new NI APIs.")
Change-Id: I079f93e3e1005a1062a3fe0807cf8b877712d818
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/c/fs/lustre-release/+/49068
Tested-by: jenkins <devops@whamcloud.com>
Tested-by: Maloo <maloo@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank Sehr <fsehr@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <green@whamcloud.com>
---
 lnet/lnet/api-ni.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c b/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
index 970bfed..637a9f6 100644
--- a/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
+++ b/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c
@@ -5181,7 +5181,7 @@ static int lnet_net_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		nla_for_each_nested(entry, attr, rem2) {
 			switch (nla_type(entry)) {
 			case LN_SCALAR_ATTR_VALUE: {
-				size_t len;
+				ssize_t len;
 
 				memset(&conf, 0, sizeof(conf));
 				if (nla_strcmp(entry, "ip2net") == 0) {
-- 
1.8.3.1