[PATCH] afs: Fix overwriting of result of DNS query

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Dec 21 07:09:31 PST 2023


Hi Linus,

Could you apply this fix, please?

Thanks,
David
---

In afs_update_cell(), ret is the result of the DNS lookup and the errors
are to be handled by a switch - however, the value gets clobbered in
between by setting it to -ENOMEM in case afs_alloc_vlserver_list() fails.

Fix this by moving the setting of -ENOMEM into the error handling for OOM
failure.  Further, only do it if we don't have an alternative error to
return.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.  Based on
a patch from Anastasia Belova[1].

Fixes: d5c32c89b208 ("afs: Fix cell DNS lookup")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Anastasia Belova <abelova at astralinux.ru>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: lvc-project at linuxtesting.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221085849.1463-1-abelova@astralinux.ru/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1700862.1703168632@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
---
 fs/afs/cell.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 988c2ac7cece..926cb1188eba 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -409,10 +409,12 @@ static int afs_update_cell(struct afs_cell *cell)
 		if (ret == -ENOMEM)
 			goto out_wake;
 
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		vllist = afs_alloc_vlserver_list(0);
-		if (!vllist)
+		if (!vllist) {
+			if (ret >= 0)
+				ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out_wake;
+		}
 
 		switch (ret) {
 		case -ENODATA:




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