[PATCH v1 1/1] test_firmware: return ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC on failed allocation

From: Mirsad Goran Todorovac
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 12:29:38 EST


In a couple of situations like:

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
return -ENOSPC;

the error is not actually "No space left on device", but "Out of memory".

So, it is semantically correct to return -ENOMEM in all failed kstrndup()
and kzalloc() cases in this driver, as it is not a problem with disk
space, but with kernel memory allocator.

The semantically correct should be:

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
return -ENOMEM;

Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/test_firmware.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_firmware.c b/lib/test_firmware.c
index 1d7d480b8eeb..add4699fc6cd 100644
--- a/lib/test_firmware.c
+++ b/lib/test_firmware.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int __kstrncpy(char **dst, const char *name, size_t count, gfp_t gfp)
{
*dst = kstrndup(name, count, gfp);
if (!*dst)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;
return count;
}

@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_request_store(struct device *dev,

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;

pr_info("loading '%s'\n", name);

@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_request_platform_store(struct device *dev,

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;

pr_info("inserting test platform fw '%s'\n", name);
efi_embedded_fw.name = name;
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_async_request_store(struct device *dev,

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;

pr_info("loading '%s'\n", name);

@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_custom_fallback_store(struct device *dev,

name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;

pr_info("loading '%s' using custom fallback mechanism\n", name);

@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ static int test_fw_run_batch_request(void *data)

test_buf = kzalloc(TEST_FIRMWARE_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!test_buf)
- return -ENOSPC;
+ return -ENOMEM;

if (test_fw_config->partial)
req->rc = request_partial_firmware_into_buf
--
2.34.1