Re: 2 error cases in sid_to_id are ignored

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

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OK - removed the two places where rc is set uselessly.

Patch attached

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 2:05 PM Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should we make the error noisier?
>
> Perhaps we could add a dynamic trace point for failed id mappings so
> we could debug these if problems with the upcall, malformed ids/SIDs
> etc?
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:18 AM Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Any thoughts on whether it would be better to return the errors, or
> > > continue the current strategy of simply using the default uid/gid for
> > > the mount and returning 0 (and removing the two places above where we
> > > set rc to non zero values, since rc will be overwritten with 0)?
> >
> > My opinion: I think best-effort would be better, so returning things as
> > default uid/gid (or possibly root).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team
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>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



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Thanks,

Steve

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From 7c3cbf7dbc5d67ba4b3df4a502fbc2441aedd36a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:07:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] cifs: remove two cases where rc is set unnecessarily in
 sid_to_id

In both these cases sid_to_id unconditionally returned success, and
used the default uid/gid for the mount, so setting rc is confusing
and simply gets overwritten (set to 0) later in the function.

Addresses-Coverity: 1491672 ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
---
 fs/cifs/cifsacl.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
index 3898a9e6d3c6..5ec5d9d24032 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ sid_to_id(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, struct cifs_sid *psid,
 	saved_cred = override_creds(root_cred);
 	sidkey = request_key(&cifs_idmap_key_type, sidstr, "");
 	if (IS_ERR(sidkey)) {
-		rc = -EINVAL;
 		cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: Can't map SID %s to a %cid\n",
 			 __func__, sidstr, sidtype == SIDOWNER ? 'u' : 'g');
 		goto out_revert_creds;
@@ -410,7 +409,6 @@ sid_to_id(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, struct cifs_sid *psid,
 	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(gid_t));
 	if (sidkey->datalen != sizeof(uid_t)) {
-		rc = -EIO;
 		cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: Downcall contained malformed key (datalen=%hu)\n",
 			 __func__, sidkey->datalen);
 		key_invalidate(sidkey);
-- 
2.30.2