Re: [PATCH] afs: Fix overwriting of result of DNS query

[Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>]

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On 12/21/2023 9:23 AM, David Howells wrote:
> In afs_update_cell(), ret is the result of the DNS lookup and the errors
> are to be handled by a switch - however, the value gets clobbered in
> between by setting it to -ENOMEM in case afs_alloc_vlserver_list() fails.
>
> Fix this by moving the setting of -ENOMEM into the error handling for OOM
> failure.  Further, only do it if we don't have an alternative error to
> return.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.  Based on
> a patch from Anastasia Belova[1].
>
> Fixes: d5c32c89b208 ("afs: Fix cell DNS lookup")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells<dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Anastasia Belova<abelova@astralinux.ru>
> cc: Marc Dionne<marc.dionne@auristor.com>
> cc:linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> cc:lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
> Link:https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221085849.1463-1-abelova@astralinux.ru/  [1]
>
> ---
>   fs/afs/cell.c |    6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
> index 988c2ac7cece..926cb1188eba 100644
> --- a/fs/afs/cell.c
> +++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
> @@ -409,10 +409,12 @@ static int afs_update_cell(struct afs_cell *cell)
>   		if (ret == -ENOMEM)
>   			goto out_wake;
>   
> -		ret = -ENOMEM;
>   		vllist = afs_alloc_vlserver_list(0);
> -		if (!vllist)
> +		if (!vllist) {
> +			if (ret >= 0)
> +				ret = -ENOMEM;
>   			goto out_wake;
> +		}
>   
>   		switch (ret) {
>   		case -ENODATA:
>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>


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