linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Fix coverity warning on error path of filename setup

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:19:32 -0400
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix coverity warning on error path of filename setup

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:

> Hello Gabriel Krisman Bertazi,
>
> The patch 3ae72562ad91: "ext4: optimize case-insensitive lookups"
> from Jun 19, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning:

Hi,

The patch below should fix this issue.

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix coverity warning on error path of filename setup

Fix the following coverity warning reported by Dan Carpenter:

fs/ext4/namei.c:1311 ext4_fname_setup_ci_filename()
	  warn: 'cf_name->len' unsigned <= 0

Fixes: 3ae72562ad91 ("ext4: optimize case-insensitive lookups")
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 4909ced4e672..898295286676 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1296,6 +1296,8 @@ int ext4_ci_compare(const struct inode *parent, const struct qstr *name,
 void ext4_fname_setup_ci_filename(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *iname,
 				  struct fscrypt_str *cf_name)
 {
+	int len;
+
 	if (!IS_CASEFOLDED(dir)) {
 		cf_name->name = NULL;
 		return;
@@ -1305,13 +1307,16 @@ void ext4_fname_setup_ci_filename(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *iname,
 	if (!cf_name->name)
 		return;
 
-	cf_name->len = utf8_casefold(EXT4_SB(dir->i_sb)->s_encoding,
-				     iname, cf_name->name,
-				     EXT4_NAME_LEN);
-	if (cf_name->len <= 0) {
+	len = utf8_casefold(EXT4_SB(dir->i_sb)->s_encoding,
+			    iname, cf_name->name,
+			    EXT4_NAME_LEN);
+	if (len <= 0) {
 		kfree(cf_name->name);
 		cf_name->name = NULL;
+		return;
 	}
+	cf_name->len = (unsigned) len;
+
 }
 #endif
 
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