On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 03:33:16PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 05:17:58PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > There are three changes but none of them should affect run time: > > > > 1) You can't write to this file because the permissions are 0444. But > > it sort of looked like you could do a write and it would result in > > a read. Then it looked like proc_sys_call_handler() just ignored > > it. Which is confusing. It's more clear if the "write" just > > returns zero. > > 2) The "lenp" pointer is never NULL so that check can be removed. > > 3) In the original code, the "if (*lenp < 0)" check didn't work because > > "*lenp" is unsigned. Fortunately, the memory_read_from_buffer() > > call will never fail in this context so it doesn't affect runtime. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > net/sunrpc/sysctl.c | 18 +++++++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c > > index a18b36b5422d..04526bab4a06 100644 > > --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c > > +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c > > @@ -63,19 +63,19 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write, > > void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) > > { > > char tmpbuf[256]; > > - size_t len; > > + ssize_t len; > > > > - if ((*ppos && !write) || !*lenp) { > > - *lenp = 0; > > + *lenp = 0; > > + > > + if (write || *ppos) > > return 0; > > - } > > + > > len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)); > > - *lenp = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len); > > + len = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len); > > Except now we're passing *lenp = 0, that can't be right. > > Though I actually kind of prefer this to Colin King's patch which just > casts (*lenp) in the comparison below. So, maybe just leave all the ugly *lenp = 0's and otherwise keep your version: commit d435c05ab019 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 6 15:39:50 2020 -0500 net/sunrpc: return 0 on attempt to write to "transports" You can't write to this file because the permissions are 0444. But it sort of looked like you could do a write and it would result in a read. Then it looked like proc_sys_call_handler() just ignored it. Which is confusing. It's more clear if the "write" just returns zero. Also, the "lenp" pointer is never NULL so that check can be removed. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c index a18b36b5422d..5c9f5bca4d99 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write, char tmpbuf[256]; size_t len; - if ((*ppos && !write) || !*lenp) { + if (write || *ppos) { *lenp = 0; return 0; } commit bfb5aa1685d5 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 6 15:50:39 2020 -0500 net/sunrpc: fix useless comparison in proc_do_xprt() In the original code, the "if (*lenp < 0)" check didn't work because "*lenp" is unsigned. Fortunately, the memory_read_from_buffer() call will never fail in this context so it doesn't affect runtime. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c index 5c9f5bca4d99..3aad6ef18504 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c @@ -63,19 +63,20 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { char tmpbuf[256]; - size_t len; + ssize_t len; if (write || *ppos) { *lenp = 0; return 0; } len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)); - *lenp = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len); + len = memory_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos, tmpbuf, len); - if (*lenp < 0) { + if (len < 0) { *lenp = 0; return -EINVAL; } + *lenp = len; return 0; }