[Christoph Hellwig - Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:29:39AM +0100] | On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:46:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | > On Thu, 10 May 2007 18:00:00 +0400 | > Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > > This patch adds cheking for granted memory while | > > filling up inode data to prevent possible NULL | > > pointer usage. If there is not enough memory to | > > fill inode data we just mark it as "bad". | > > | > > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > | > > Please check the patch, maybe just marking inode as | > > "bad" is not a good solution. | > > | > | > yes, make_bad_inode() is appropriate here. | > | > > | > > diff --git a/fs/udf/inode.c b/fs/udf/inode.c | > > index c846155..91cddae 100644 | > > --- a/fs/udf/inode.c | > > +++ b/fs/udf/inode.c | > > @@ -1144,6 +1144,13 @@ static void udf_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh) | > > UDF_I_EFE(inode) = 1; | > > UDF_I_USE(inode) = 0; | > > UDF_I_DATA(inode) = kmalloc(inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - sizeof(struct extendedFileEntry), GFP_KERNEL); | > > + if (!UDF_I_DATA(inode)) | > > + { | > > + printk(KERN_ERR "udf: udf_fill_inode(ino %ld) no free memory\n", | > > + inode->i_ino); | > > + make_bad_inode(inode); | > > + return; | > > + } | > | > But please let's not add three copies of identical code. Do something like: | > | > static int udf_check_inode(struct inode *inode) | > { | > if (!UDF_I_DATA(inode)) { | > printk(KERN_ERR "udf: udf_fill_inode(ino %ld) no free memory\n", | > inode->i_ino); | > make_bad_inode(inode); | > return -1; | > } | > return 0; | > } | > | > | > if (udf_check_inode(inode)) | > return; | > | > In fact you can also do the kmalloc in that helper function too: | > | > static int udf_alloc_i_data(struct inode *inode, size_t size) | > { | > UDF_I_DATA(inode) = kmalloc(...); | > ... | > } | | And please get rid of the UDF_I_* macro for everything you touch, just | put a | | struct udf_inode_info *uip = UDF_I(inode); | | at the beginning of the function and use the fields directly. |
OK, I've already sent v.2 of the patch, so v.3 will become soon ;) Cyrill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/