[PATCH] ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring sem lock in ext2_xattr_get

[Wang Sheng-Hui]

The patch is against 3.0.

In ext2_xattr_get, the code will acquire sem lock first, later check
the length of xattr name_len > 255. It's kind of time consuming, and
we should do the basic check before the time consuming acquiring sem
lock.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext2/xattr.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index 5299706..d27b71f 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ ext2_xattr_get(struct inode *inode, int name_index, const char *name,
 
 	if (name == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	name_len = strlen(name);
+	if (name_len > 255)
+		return -ERANGE;
+
 	down_read(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
 	error = -ENODATA;
 	if (!EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl)
@@ -181,12 +185,8 @@ bad_block:	ext2_error(inode->i_sb, "ext2_xattr_get",
 		error = -EIO;
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
-	/* find named attribute */
-	name_len = strlen(name);
 
-	error = -ERANGE;
-	if (name_len > 255)
-		goto cleanup;
+	/* find named attribute */
 	entry = FIRST_ENTRY(bh);
 	while (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(entry)) {
 		struct ext2_xattr_entry *next =
-- 
1.7.1

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