[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 4/5] cifs: Make cifs_readdir use the helpers

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 19:42:48 GMT 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:47:32 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:

> We need to get the string from current_entry before calling
> UniStrnlenBytes()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/readdir.c |   16 +++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: cifs-2.6.git/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> ===================================================================
> --- cifs-2.6.git.orig/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> +++ cifs-2.6.git/fs/cifs/readdir.c
> @@ -995,8 +995,10 @@ int cifs_readdir(struct file *file, void
>  	char *current_entry;
>  	int num_to_fill = 0;
>  	char *tmp_buf = NULL;
> -	char *end_of_smb;
> -	int max_len;
> +	char *end_of_smb, *filename;
> +	int max_len, nchars;
> +	size_t nbytes;
> +	FILE_UNIX_INFO *punix_info;
>  
>  	xid = GetXid();
>  
> @@ -1070,11 +1072,12 @@ int cifs_readdir(struct file *file, void
>  				cifsFile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start);
>  		end_of_smb = cifsFile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start + max_len;
>  
> -		/* To be safe - for UCS to UTF-8 with strings loaded
> -		with the rare long characters alloc more to account for
> -		such multibyte target UTF-8 characters. cifs_unicode.c,
> -		which actually does the conversion, has the same limit */
> -		tmp_buf = kmalloc((2 * NAME_MAX) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		/* compute the actual length in bytes required and use it */
> +		punix_info = (FILE_UNIX_INFO *)current_entry;
> +		filename = &punix_info->FileName[0];
> +		nbytes = UniStrnlenBytes((wchar_t *)filename, 2*NAME_MAX,
> +				&nchars, cifs_sb->local_nls);
> +		tmp_buf = kmalloc(nbytes + 2, GFP_KERNEL);

You're sizing the buffer by the size of the entry that started the
search. I don't think you can reasonably predict how big a buffer
you'll need here. I think the best you can do is just make tmp_buf get
a buffer that's the max you could possibly need -- (NAME_MAX * 4) + 2.

>  		for (i = 0; (i < num_to_fill) && (rc == 0); i++) {
>  			if (current_entry == NULL) {
>  				/* evaluate whether this case is an error */
> 


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