in cifssmb.c add copy_from_user return value check and do minor formatting/whitespace cleanups.

Domen Puncer domen at coderock.org
Tue Dec 21 23:54:24 GMT 2004


On 22/12/04 00:33 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Seeing this warning :
> 
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:902: warning: ignoring return value of `copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> lead to the following patch.
> 
> The patch adds a check of the copy_from_user return value and returns 
> -EFAULT if the call fails. In addition to that I did some 
> formatting/whitespace changes - the code uses primarily tabs for 
> indentation, but this little bit used spaces, so I changed that to tabs; I 
> also added a few curly braces {} for a few if statements, in the same 
> area, that seemed to be becomming quite hard to read without.
> 
> Patch has been compile tested, but I have no real way to test it properly 
> beyond that. 
> I hope the patch is acceptable and mergable :)
> 
> Btw, I'm only subscribed to LKML, so please keep me on CC.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml at dif.dk>
> 
> diff -up linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13-orig/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> --- linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13-orig/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c	2004-12-20 22:19:42.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.10-rc3-bk13/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c	2004-12-22 00:21:38.000000000 +0100
> @@ -895,14 +895,19 @@ CIFSSMBWrite(const int xid, struct cifsT
>  		bytes_sent = count;
>  	pSMB->DataLengthHigh = 0;
>  	pSMB->DataOffset =
> -	    cpu_to_le16(offsetof(struct smb_com_write_req,Data) - 4);
> -    if(buf)
> -	    memcpy(pSMB->Data,buf,bytes_sent);
> -	else if(ubuf)
> -		copy_from_user(pSMB->Data,ubuf,bytes_sent);
> -    else {
> +		cpu_to_le16(offsetof(struct smb_com_write_req,Data) - 4);
> +
> +	if (buf) {
> +		memcpy(pSMB->Data,buf,bytes_sent);
> +	} else if (ubuf) {
> +		if (copy_from_user(pSMB->Data,ubuf,bytes_sent)) {
> +			if (pSMB)

How can this be NULL, and code not Oopsing?

> +				cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +		}
> +	} else {
>  		/* No buffer */
> -		if(pSMB)
> +		if (pSMB)

Same here.

>  			cifs_buf_release(pSMB);
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> 
> 
> 
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