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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: wharms@bfs.de
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] nfs: check kmalloc() return
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:41:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288273273.3194.16.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC92338.7070304@bfs.de>

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:16 +0200, walter harms wrote:
> 
> Dan Carpenter schrieb:
> > The decode_and_add_ds() should return NULL on failure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> > index 51fe64a..098113c 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> > @@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
> >  		goto out_err;
> >  	}
> >  	buf = kmalloc(rlen + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!buf)
> > +		goto out_err;
> >  	buf[rlen] = '\0';
> >  	memcpy(buf, r_addr, rlen);
> >  
> 
> it seems that r_addr is a string, then kstdup() is emulated here.
> 
> re,
>  wh

Not quite. kstrdup() requires that the argument be a NUL-terminated
string. The above code doesn't.

Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-28 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-28  4:44 [patch] nfs: check kmalloc() return Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28  7:16 ` walter harms
2010-10-28 13:41   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2010-10-28 14:14     ` Benny Halevy
2010-10-28 16:57       ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-29  7:33         ` Benny Halevy

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