Re: [patch v2] ncpfs: don't allow negative timeouts

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Nov 11 2015 - 02:35:58 EST


On Wed 11-11-15 01:14:41, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This code causes a static checker warning because it's a user controlled
> variable where we cap the upper bound but not the lower bound. Let's
> return an -EINVAL for negative timeouts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> v2: in the original I just ignored the invalid data and went with the
> default but now it returns -EINVAL.
>
> diff --git a/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c b/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c
> index 79b1130..ebf45d2 100644
> --- a/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c
> @@ -525,7 +525,9 @@ static long __ncp_ioctl(struct inode *inode, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg
> switch (rqdata.cmd) {
> case NCP_LOCK_EX:
> case NCP_LOCK_SH:
> - if (rqdata.timeout == 0)
> + if (rqdata.timeout < 0)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + else if (rqdata.timeout == 0)
> rqdata.timeout = NCP_LOCK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
> else if (rqdata.timeout > NCP_LOCK_MAX_TIMEOUT)
> rqdata.timeout = NCP_LOCK_MAX_TIMEOUT;
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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