[lustre-devel] [PATCH v2] staging/lustre/ptlrpc: Removes potential null dereference

[Patrick Farrell <paf@cray.com>]

James,

No.  You've got it backwards.   0 is false, any non-zero value is true.

if(desc) would be equal to if (desc != 0).

- Patrick

On 05/16/2016 01:16 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>> This looks wrong - You return -EINVAL from sptlrpc_pack_user_desc, but then
>> the caller checks "!desc".  Desc will not be null, since you've returned
>> -EINVAL.
> Actually 'if (!desc)' is equal to 'if (desc != 0). Yes it can be confusing.
> I recommend 'if (desc < 0)' instead to make it clearer what is being
> tested for.
>
>> - Patrick
>>
>> On 05/16/2016 09:17 AM, Lidza Louina wrote:
>>> The lustre_msg_buf method could return NULL. Subsequent code didn't
>>> check if it's null before using it. This patch adds two checks.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c       | 2 ++
>>>    drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c | 9 +++++++--
>>>    2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
>>> b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
>>> index 187fd1d..e6fedc3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c
>>> @@ -2195,6 +2195,8 @@ int sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(struct lustre_msg *msg, int
>>> offset)
>>>     struct ptlrpc_user_desc *pud;
>>>    
>>>    	pud = lustre_msg_buf(msg, offset, 0);
>>> +	if (!pud)
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>>    
>>>     pud->pud_uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid());
>>>     pud->pud_gid = from_kgid(&init_user_ns, current_gid());
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
>>> b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
>>> index 37c9f4c..51741c8 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_plain.c
>>> @@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ int plain_alloc_reqbuf(struct ptlrpc_sec *sec,
>>>    {
>>>     __u32 buflens[PLAIN_PACK_SEGMENTS] = { 0, };
>>>     int alloc_len;
>>> +	int desc;
>>>    
>>>     buflens[PLAIN_PACK_HDR_OFF] = sizeof(struct plain_header);
>>>     buflens[PLAIN_PACK_MSG_OFF] = msgsize;
>>> @@ -574,8 +575,12 @@ int plain_alloc_reqbuf(struct ptlrpc_sec *sec,
>>>     lustre_init_msg_v2(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_SEGMENTS, buflens, NULL);
>>>     req->rq_reqmsg = lustre_msg_buf(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_MSG_OFF, 0);
>>>    -	if (req->rq_pack_udesc)
>>> -		sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(req->rq_reqbuf, PLAIN_PACK_USER_OFF);
>>> +	if (req->rq_pack_udesc) {
>>> +		desc = sptlrpc_pack_user_desc(req->rq_reqbuf,
>>> +					      PLAIN_PACK_USER_OFF);
>>> +		if (!desc)
>>> +			return desc;
>>> +	}
>>>    
>>>    	return 0;
>>>    }
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