From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, markus.lidel@shadowconnect.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add missing checks of __copy_to_user return value in i2o_config.c
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:43:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005154351.4776d3c4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410060025370.2913@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> wrote:
>
> - __copy_to_user(kxfer.buf, buffer.virt, fragsize);
> + if (__copy_to_user(kxfer.buf, buffer.virt, fragsize)) {
> + i2o_dma_free(&c->pdev->dev, &buffer);
> + return -EFAULT;
> + }
> +
> i2o_dma_free(&c->pdev->dev, &buffer);
Please try to avoid more than a single return statement per function.
Also, please try to avoid duplicating code such as the above - it's a
maintainance problem is nothing else.
Like this:
--- 25/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c~add-missing-checks-of-__copy_to_user-return-value-in Tue Oct 5 15:41:04 2004
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c Tue Oct 5 15:42:17 2004
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ static int i2o_cfg_getiops(unsigned long
list_for_each_entry(c, &i2o_controllers, list)
tmp[c->unit] = 1;
- __copy_to_user(user_iop_table, tmp, MAX_I2O_CONTROLLERS);
+ if (__copy_to_user(user_iop_table, tmp, MAX_I2O_CONTROLLERS))
+ return -EFAULT;
return 0;
};
@@ -416,6 +417,7 @@ static int i2o_cfg_swul(unsigned long ar
u32 m;
unsigned int status = 0, swlen = 0, fragsize = 8192;
struct i2o_controller *c;
+ int ret;
if (copy_from_user(&kxfer, pxfer, sizeof(struct i2o_sw_xfer)))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -474,10 +476,11 @@ static int i2o_cfg_swul(unsigned long ar
return status;
}
- __copy_to_user(kxfer.buf, buffer.virt, fragsize);
+ ret = 0;
+ if (__copy_to_user(kxfer.buf, buffer.virt, fragsize))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
i2o_dma_free(&c->pdev->dev, &buffer);
-
- return 0;
+ return ret;
};
static int i2o_cfg_swdel(unsigned long arg)
_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 21:43 [PATCH] add missing checks of __copy_to_user return value in i2o_config.c Jesper Juhl
2004-10-05 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-05 22:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-05 22:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-05 23:11 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-06 10:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-06 20:11 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-07 21:01 ` Markus Lidel
2004-10-08 0:23 ` Jesper Juhl
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