Commit 57070d01 authored Mar 25, 2006 by Peter Staubach Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 25, 2006

[PATCH] compat_sys_nfsservctl(): handle errors correctly

Correct some error handling on the compat version of the nfsservctl()
system.  It was detecting errors while copying in the arguments from user
space, but then attempting to use the arguments anyway.  This didn't seem
so good.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 30087baf

fs/compat.c

+4 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2170,9 +2170,12 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_nfsservctl(int cmd, struct compat_nfsctl_arg __user *

		default:
		err = -EINVAL;
		goto done;
		break;
		}

		if (err)
		goto done;

		oldfs = get_fs();
		set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
		/* The __user pointer casts are valid because of the set_fs() */

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