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* [PATCH] nfs: nfs4clinet: check the return value of kstrdup()
@ 2021-12-13  3:00 Xiaoke Wang
  2021-12-16 16:39 ` Anna Schumaker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Xiaoke Wang @ 2021-12-13  3:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: trond.myklebust, anna.schumaker; +Cc: linux-nfs, linux-kernel, Xiaoke Wang

kstrdup() returns NULL when some internal memory errors happen, it is
better to check the return value of it so to catch the memory error in
time.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
---
 fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
index af57332..89f13e0 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
@@ -1372,5 +1372,8 @@ int nfs4_update_server(struct nfs_server *server, const char *hostname,
 		server->nfs_client->cl_hostname = kstrdup(hostname, GFP_KERNEL);
 	nfs_server_insert_lists(server);
 
+	if (server->nfs_client->cl_hostname == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	return nfs_probe_destination(server);
 }
-- 

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* Re: [PATCH] nfs: nfs4clinet: check the return value of kstrdup()
  2021-12-13  3:00 [PATCH] nfs: nfs4clinet: check the return value of kstrdup() Xiaoke Wang
@ 2021-12-16 16:39 ` Anna Schumaker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anna Schumaker @ 2021-12-16 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Xiaoke Wang
  Cc: Trond Myklebust, Linux NFS Mailing List, Linux Kernel Mailing List

Hi Xiaoke,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:54 AM Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com> wrote:
>
> kstrdup() returns NULL when some internal memory errors happen, it is
> better to check the return value of it so to catch the memory error in
> time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> index af57332..89f13e0 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
> @@ -1372,5 +1372,8 @@ int nfs4_update_server(struct nfs_server *server, const char *hostname,
>                 server->nfs_client->cl_hostname = kstrdup(hostname, GFP_KERNEL);
>         nfs_server_insert_lists(server);
>
> +       if (server->nfs_client->cl_hostname == NULL)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +

Checking the return of kstrdup() makes sense, but I think this should
right after the kstrdup() call and still under that if block.

Anna

>         return nfs_probe_destination(server);
>  }
> --

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