Re: [PATCH 1/1] cifs: potential missing check for posix_lock_file_wait

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merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:18:49 -0400
> Chengyu Song <csong84@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> posix_lock_file_wait may fail under certain circumstances, and its result is
>> usually checked/returned. But given the complexity of cifs, I'm not sure if
>> the result is intentially left unchecked and always expected to succeed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chengyu Song <csong84@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/cifs/file.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
>> index a94b3e6..beef67b 100644
>> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
>> @@ -1553,8 +1553,8 @@ cifs_setlk(struct file *file, struct file_lock *flock, __u32 type,
>>               rc = server->ops->mand_unlock_range(cfile, flock, xid);
>>
>>  out:
>> -     if (flock->fl_flags & FL_POSIX)
>> -             posix_lock_file_wait(file, flock);
>> +     if (flock->fl_flags & FL_POSIX && !rc)
>> +             rc = posix_lock_file_wait(file, flock);
>>       return rc;
>>  }
>>
>
> (cc'ing Pavel since he wrote a lot of this code)
>
> I think your patch looks correct -- if we (for instance) get a memory
> allocation failure while trying to set the local lock then I think we
> probably don't want to return success. So...
>
>     Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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Thanks,

Steve
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