git » linux-kernel » commit 16ec470

9p: fix put_data error handling

author Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-09-24 21:22:22 UTC
committer Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-09-24 21:22:22 UTC
parent 62aa528e0299ffef8e138d9d92d13e631d06c5ff
9p: fix put_data error handling

Abhishek Kulkarni pointed out an inconsistency in the way
errors are returned from p9_put_data.  On deeper exploration it
seems the error handling for this path was completely wrong.
This patch adds checks for allocation problems and propagates
errors correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
net/9p/conv.c +5 -1 
diff --git a/net/9p/conv.c b/net/9p/conv.c
index 44547201f5b..5ad3a3bd73b 100644
--- a/net/9p/conv.c
+++ b/net/9p/conv.c
@@ -451,8 +451,10 @@ p9_put_data(struct cbuf *bufp, const char *data, int count,
 		   unsigned char **pdata)
 {
 	*pdata = buf_alloc(bufp, count);
+	if (*pdata == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	memmove(*pdata, data, count);
-	return count;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -460,6 +462,8 @@ p9_put_user_data(struct cbuf *bufp, const char __user *data, int count,
 		   unsigned char **pdata)
 {
 	*pdata = buf_alloc(bufp, count);
+	if (*pdata == NULL)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	return copy_from_user(*pdata, data, count);
 }