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From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: Bharath SM <bharathsm.hsk@gmail.com>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, smfrench@gmail.com
Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] smb: add NULL check after kzalloc in cifsConvertToUTF16
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:24:31 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54184af46fa389c51312534fe05994b5@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250619153538.1600500-4-bharathsm@microsoft.com>

Bharath SM <bharathsm.hsk@gmail.com> writes:

> Added a check to return -ENOMEM if kzalloc for wchar_to fails
>
> Signed-off-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
> index 4cc6e0896fad..7bc2268d6881 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
> @@ -466,6 +466,8 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
>  		return cifs_strtoUTF16(target, source, PATH_MAX, cp);
>  
>  	wchar_to = kzalloc(6, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (wchar_to == NULL)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

I wouldn't do that as there are several places that rely on
cifsConvertToUTF16() returning >= 0 and some other places that don't
even check its return value.

What about having it defined as

        wchar_t wchar_to[3] = {};

and then getting rid of the memory allocation altogether?

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-19 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-19 15:35 [PATCH 1/7] smb: Use loff_t for directory position in cached_dirents Bharath SM
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] smb: minor fix to use sizeof to initialize flags_string buffer Bharath SM
2025-06-19 16:06   ` Paulo Alcantara
2025-06-20  9:36   ` Shyam Prasad N
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] smb: minor fix to use SMB2_NTLMV2_SESSKEY_SIZE for auth_key size Bharath SM
2025-06-19 16:08   ` Paulo Alcantara
2025-06-20  9:44   ` Shyam Prasad N
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 4/7] smb: add NULL check after kzalloc in cifsConvertToUTF16 Bharath SM
2025-06-19 16:24   ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
2025-06-20 15:04     ` Bharath SM
2025-06-20  9:44   ` Shyam Prasad N
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] cifs: minor cleanup to remove unused permission bit macros Bharath SM
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] smb: Fix potential divide-by-zero issue when iface_min_speed is 0 Bharath SM
2025-06-19 16:01   ` Paulo Alcantara
2025-06-20 15:04     ` Bharath SM
2025-06-20  9:49   ` Shyam Prasad N
2025-06-19 15:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] smb: Fix memory allocation and ACL handling in cifs_xattr_set Bharath SM
2025-06-19 15:57   ` Paulo Alcantara
2025-06-19 16:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] smb: Use loff_t for directory position in cached_dirents Paulo Alcantara
2025-06-20  9:34 ` Shyam Prasad N

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