Re: [PATCH] net/sunrpc: Fix return value from proc_do_xprt()

J. Bruce Fields
2020-11-07T15:39:28Z

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:49:40PM +0000, Alex Dewar wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 05:07:21PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Whoops, got 3 independent patches for this and overlooked this one. See
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20201106205959.GB26028@fieldses.org/T/#t
> >
> > --b.
>
> That looks like a cleaner fix. Thanks for looking anyhow and sorry for
> the noise!

Not noise, all these efforts are appreciated.---b.

>
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> > > Commit c09f56b8f68d ("net/sunrpc: Fix return value for sysctl
> > > sunrpc.transports") attempted to add error checking for the call to
> > > memory_read_from_buffer(), however its return value was assigned to a
> > > size_t variable, so any negative values would be lost in the cast. Fix
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1498033: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
> > > Fixes: c09f56b8f68d ("net/sunrpc: Fix return value for sysctl sunrpc.transports")
> > > Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > net/sunrpc/sysctl.c | 7 +++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
> > > index a18b36b5422d..c95a2b84dd95 100644
> > > --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
> > > +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
> > > @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ rpc_unregister_sysctl(void)
> > > static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> > > void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
> > > {
> > > + ssize_t bytes_read;
> > > char tmpbuf[256];
> > > size_t len;
> > >
> > > @@ -70,12 +71,14 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > > len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
> > > - *lenp = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len);
> > > + bytes_read = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len);
> > >
> > > - if (*lenp < 0) {
> > > + if (bytes_read < 0) {
> > > *lenp = 0;
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > > }
> > > +
> > > + *lenp = bytes_read;
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.29.1