[smb3] unreachable code and memory leaks

[Steve French]

Gustavo,
Thx for pointing this out.  Let me know if this patch addresses what
you found.  Code is experimental mount option but extremely important
to get right due to move away from SMB1/CIFS which had posix
extensions.



On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavo at embeddedor.com> wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> While doing some static analysis I came across the following piece of code at fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c:2017:
>>
>> 2017                if (n_iov > 2) {
>> 2018                        struct create_context *ccontext =
>> 2019                            (struct create_context *)iov[n_iov-1].iov_base;
>> 2020                        ccontext->Next =
>> 2021                                cpu_to_le32(iov[n_iov-1].iov_len);
>> 2022                }
>
> Good catch - this is harmless (and experimental mount option) - cut
> and paste - unneeded clause.
> Fixing now
>
>
>> Also, it seems there are multiple places in which memory allocated for *path* is leaking:
>>
>> 1946        else
>> 1947                return -EIO;
>>
>> 1951        if (rc)
>> 1952                return rc;
>>
>> 1987                if (rc) {
>> 1988                        cifs_small_buf_release(req);
>> 1989                        return rc;
>> 1990                }
>
> Cleaning that up now. Will post a patch - thx.
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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