1. 19 May, 2009 1 commit
    • Jeff Layton's avatar
      cifs: fix pointer initialization and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (try #4) · 8b6427a2
      Jeff Layton authored
      This is the third respin of the patch posted yesterday to fix the error
      handling in cifs_follow_symlink. It also includes a fix for a bogus NULL
      pointer check in CIFSSMBQueryUnixSymLink that Jeff Moyer spotted.
      
      It's possible for CIFSSMBQueryUnixSymLink to return without setting
      target_path to a valid pointer. If that happens then the current value
      to which we're initializing this pointer could cause an oops when it's
      kfree'd.
      
      This patch is a little more comprehensive than the last patches. It
      reorganizes cifs_follow_link a bit for (hopefully) better readability.
      It should also eliminate the uneeded allocation of full_path on servers
      without unix extensions (assuming they can get to this point anyway, of
      which I'm not convinced).
      
      On a side note, I'm not sure I agree with the logic of enabling this
      query even when unix extensions are disabled on the client. It seems
      like that should disable this as well. But, changing that is outside the
      scope of this fix, so I've left it alone for now.
      Reported-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@inraded.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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