fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix an underflow issue (harmless)

We cap "nmsgs" at I2C_RDRW_IOCTL_MAX_MSGS (42) but the current code
allows negative values.  It's harmless but it makes my static checker
upset so I've made nsmgs unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
index dc52e13d58e0..3881610b6438 100644
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -680,7 +680,8 @@ static int do_i2c_rdwr_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
         struct i2c_msg                  __user *tmsgs;
         struct i2c_msg32                __user *umsgs;
         compat_caddr_t                  datap;
-        int                             nmsgs, i;
+        u32                             nmsgs;
+        int                             i;
 
         if (get_user(nmsgs, &udata->nmsgs))
                 return -EFAULT;