Re: [PATCH] 9p bug fix: return non-zero error value in p9_put_data

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Abhishek Kulkarni <kulkarni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> p9_put_data is called by p9_create_twrite which expects it to return a
> non-zero value on error. This was the reason why every p9_client_write
> was failing. This patch also adds a check for buffer overflow in
> p9_put_data.
>

I'm a bit confused about when this is even getting called -- O thought
all writes were following the p9_client_uwrite path?

Also, we do the bufoverflow check in p9_create_write -- so with your
patch aren't we doing this twice?

           -eric


> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <kulkarni@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/9p/conv.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/net/9p/conv.c b/net/9p/conv.c
> index 4454720..7f6db15 100644
> --- a/net/9p/conv.c
> +++ b/net/9p/conv.c
> @@ -451,8 +451,11 @@ p9_put_data(struct cbuf *bufp, const char *data,
> int count,
>                   unsigned char **pdata)
>  {
>        *pdata = buf_alloc(bufp, count);
> +       if (buf_check_overflow(bufp))
> +               return -EIO;
> +
>        memmove(*pdata, data, count);
> -       return count;
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
>  static int
>
>
> Thanks,
>  -- Abhishek
>
>
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