cifs: fix return value in cifsConvertToUTF16

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 17:57:49 MDT 2012


You are right - this should have gone in 3.5.

Please remind me if you see an important patch not make linux-next (or
equivalently the cifs-2.6.git for-next branch).  I get a big volume of
email.

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Hey, I sent you that exact same patch on the 12th June!  Would have saved you and others some valuable time if you hadn't ignored it then!  (-;
>
> Told you it was an obvious logic bug!  (-;
>
> Best regards,
>
>         Anton
>
> On 22 Sep 2012, at 21:28, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127
>> Commit:     c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127
>> Parent:     4651afbbae968772efd6dc4ba461cba9b49bb9d8
>> Author:     Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
>> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 18 14:21:01 2012 -0400
>> Committer:  Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
>> CommitDate: Tue Sep 18 15:35:25 2012 -0500
>>
>>    cifs: fix return value in cifsConvertToUTF16
>>
>>    This function returns the wrong value, which causes the callers to get
>>    the length of the resulting pathname wrong when it contains non-ASCII
>>    characters.
>>
>>    This seems to fix https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6767
>>
>>    Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
>>    Reported-by: Baldvin Kovacs <baldvin.kovacs at gmail.com>
>>    Reported-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Lefebvre <nico.lefebvre at gmail.com>
>>    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
>>    Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c |    2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
>> index 7dab9c0..53cf2aa 100644
>> --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
>> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
>> @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
>>       }
>>
>> ctoUTF16_out:
>> -     return i;
>> +     return j;
>> }
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2
>
> --
> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
> Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
> Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve


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