Re: [PATCH v1] net: sunrpc: Fix error checking for d_hash_and_lookup()

From: Jiri Pirko
Date: Mon Aug 26 2024 - 05:39:36 EST


Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 09:06:59AM CEST, yanzhen@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns either an error pointer or NULL.
>
>It might be more appropriate to check error using IS_ERR_OR_NULL().
>
>Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen <yanzhen@xxxxxxxx>

You need to provide a "fixes" tag blaming the commit that introduced the
bug.


>---
> net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
>index 910a5d850d04..fd03dd46b1f2 100644
>--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
>+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
>@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(struct dentry *root, struct rpc_pipe *pipe_data)
>
> /* We should never get this far if "gssd" doesn't exist */
> gssd_dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(root, &q);
>- if (!gssd_dentry)
>+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(gssd_dentry))
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
>
> ret = rpc_populate(gssd_dentry, gssd_dummy_clnt_dir, 0, 1, NULL);
>@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(struct dentry *root, struct rpc_pipe *pipe_data)
> q.name = gssd_dummy_clnt_dir[0].name;
> q.len = strlen(gssd_dummy_clnt_dir[0].name);
> clnt_dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(gssd_dentry, &q);
>- if (!clnt_dentry) {
>+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(clnt_dentry)) {
> __rpc_depopulate(gssd_dentry, gssd_dummy_clnt_dir, 0, 1);
> pipe_dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> goto out;
>--
>2.34.1
>
>