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authorAndy King <acking@vmware.com>2013-01-22 17:15:04 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-22 17:29:26 (GMT)
commit5a19b78972c39be0c5378c14c23e6c998683e80f (patch)
treebc2039eb5e3d14efc3140bc480c2a4109c0d66d8 /drivers/misc
parent74465645cdb4391b9fc95d12fd750a88012ad479 (diff)
downloadlinux-5a19b78972c39be0c5378c14c23e6c998683e80f.tar.xz
VMCI: Fix broken context ID retrieval
I'm an idiot. The context ID can be a really large unsigned number, which means it'll appear negative as an int. So actually the right fix here is just to set it regardless of the returned value (but only for this particular hypercall; normally we would check it). Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
index de1a90b..60c0199 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_guest.c
@@ -81,16 +81,13 @@ bool vmci_guest_code_active(void)
u32 vmci_get_vm_context_id(void)
{
if (vm_context_id == VMCI_INVALID_ID) {
- int result;
struct vmci_datagram get_cid_msg;
get_cid_msg.dst =
vmci_make_handle(VMCI_HYPERVISOR_CONTEXT_ID,
VMCI_GET_CONTEXT_ID);
get_cid_msg.src = VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE;
get_cid_msg.payload_size = 0;
- result = vmci_send_datagram(&get_cid_msg);
- if (result >= 0)
- vm_context_id = result;
+ vm_context_id = vmci_send_datagram(&get_cid_msg);
}
return vm_context_id;
}