Re: [PATCH] cifs: fix erroneous return value

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 12:59:53 EST


On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 12:50 -0500, Anton Protopopov wrote:
> The setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function may return positive value ENOMEM instead
> of -ENOMEM in case of kmalloc failure.

How have you verified this change is correct?

Have you checked that the callers of this function in
fs/cifs/sess.c do the appropriate things with with a
negative return value?

The return value is now set into a struct member variable
as a positive value,

sess_data->result = rc;

Have you checked all the users of this member variable?

If you have, you should say so in the commit message.

> Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> index afa09fc..e682b36 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
> @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ setup_ntlmv2_rsp(struct cifs_ses *ses, const struct nls_table *nls_cp)
>  
>   ses->auth_key.response = kmalloc(baselen + tilen, GFP_KERNEL);
>   if (!ses->auth_key.response) {
> - rc = ENOMEM;
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
>   ses->auth_key.len = 0;
>   goto setup_ntlmv2_rsp_ret;
>   }