Re: [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: Fix potential buffer underflow

From: Drokin, Oleg
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 19:32:13 EST


Thanks!

Actually, I do't think this function is useful on the client.
>From the name of it, it would have been used in the server code, but even there it was recently removed as I now see.

I'll submit a removal patch.

On Sep 8, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Hugues wrote:
>> Fix potential buffer underflow
>>
>> When the string 'name' start with a '-' ptr == name and so --ptr will
>> underflow, this patch corrected this by checking ptr before decrementing.
>
> Good eye. Please fix up the changelog and send it inline etc and
> resend. I've added Oleg and Andreas to the CC list so that this doesn't
> get lost.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
>>> From 5786040323bd1dc3149fb4afbea9f01e2bf4cfdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Hugues Morisset <morisset.hugues@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 22:59:04 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: Fix potential buffer underflow
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hugues Morisset <morisset.hugues@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/obd.h | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/obd.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/obd.h
>> index 409eae6..bb67e40 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/obd.h
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/obd.h
>> @@ -677,7 +677,12 @@ static inline int is_osp_on_mdt(char *name)
>> if (strncmp(ptr + 1, "MDT", 3) != 0)
>> return 0;
>>
>> - while (*(--ptr) != '-' && ptr != name);
>> + if (ptr == name)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> + --ptr;
>> + while (ptr != '-' && ptr != name)
>> + --ptr;
>>
>> if (ptr == name)
>> return 0;
>> --
>> 2.1.0
>>
>
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