From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: in cifssmb.c add copy_from_user return value check and do minor formatting/whitespace cleanups.
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:54:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041221235424.GA19274@nd47.coderock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412220021580.3518@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>
On 22/12/04 00:33 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Seeing this warning :
>
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:902: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
> lead to the following patch.
>
> The patch adds a check of the copy_from_user return value and returns
> -EFAULT if the call fails. In addition to that I did some
> formatting/whitespace changes - the code uses primarily tabs for
> indentation, but this little bit used spaces, so I changed that to tabs; I
> also added a few curly braces {} for a few if statements, in the same
> area, that seemed to be becomming quite hard to read without.
>
> Patch has been compile tested, but I have no real way to test it properly
> beyond that.
> I hope the patch is acceptable and mergable :)
>
> Btw, I'm only subscribed to LKML, so please keep me on CC.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
>
> diff -up linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13-orig/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> --- linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13-orig/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c 2004-12-20 22:19:42.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c 2004-12-22 00:21:38.000000000 +0100
> @@ -895,14 +895,19 @@ CIFSSMBWrite(const int xid, struct cifsT
> bytes_sent = count;
> pSMB->DataLengthHigh = 0;
> pSMB->DataOffset =
> - cpu_to_le16(offsetof(struct smb_com_write_req,Data) - 4);
> - if(buf)
> - memcpy(pSMB->Data,buf,bytes_sent);
> - else if(ubuf)
> - copy_from_user(pSMB->Data,ubuf,bytes_sent);
> - else {
> + cpu_to_le16(offsetof(struct smb_com_write_req,Data) - 4);
> +
> + if (buf) {
> + memcpy(pSMB->Data,buf,bytes_sent);
> + } else if (ubuf) {
> + if (copy_from_user(pSMB->Data,ubuf,bytes_sent)) {
> + if (pSMB)
How can this be NULL, and code not Oopsing?
> + cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
> + return -EFAULT;
> + }
> + } else {
> /* No buffer */
> - if(pSMB)
> + if (pSMB)
Same here.
> cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-21 23:33 [PATCH] in cifssmb.c add copy_from_user return value check and do minor formatting/whitespace cleanups Jesper Juhl
2004-12-21 23:54 ` Domen Puncer [this message]
2004-12-22 0:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-22 1:03 ` [third patch version] " Jesper Juhl
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