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BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393355

Compat function takes msgtyp argument as u32 and passes it down to
do_msgrcv which results in casting to long, thus the sign is lost and we
get a big positive number instead.

Cast the argument to signed type before passing it down.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Gabriellla Schmidt <gsc@bruker.de>

Upstream-Status::Backport
Kernel 3.14

diff --git a/ipc/compat.c b/ipc/compat.c
index 892f658..d3b3760 100644
--- a/ipc/compat.c
+++ b/ipc/compat.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(ipc, u32, call, int, first, int, second,
 			uptr = compat_ptr(ipck.msgp);
 			fifth = ipck.msgtyp;
 		}
-		return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, fifth, third,
+		return do_msgrcv(first, uptr, second, (s32)fifth, third,
 				 compat_do_msg_fill);
 	}
 	case MSGGET: