linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zcache: fix "zcache=" kernel parameter

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:20:16 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@...tner.samsung.com>
Cc:	bob.liu@...cle.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	b.zolnierkie@...sung.com, Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zcache: fix "zcache=" kernel parameter

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 04:46:41PM +0200, Piotr Sarna wrote:
> Commit 835f2f5 ("staging: zcache: enable zcache to be built/loaded as
> a module") introduced an incorrect handling of "zcache=" parameter.
> 
> Inside zcache_comp_init() function, zcache_comp_name variable is
> checked for being empty. If not empty, the above variable is tested
> for being compatible with Crypto API. Unfortunately, after that
> function ends unconditionally (by the "goto out" directive) and returns:
> - non-zero value if verification succeeded, wrongly indicating an error
> - zero value if verification failed, falsely informing that function
>   zcache_comp_init() ended properly.
> 
> A solution to this problem is as following:
> 1. Move the "goto out" directive inside the "if (!ret)" statement
> 2. In case that crypto_has_comp() returned 0, change the value of ret
>    to non-zero before "goto out" to indicate an error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@...tner.samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>

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Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>


> ---
>  drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> index dcceed2..81972fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> @@ -1811,10 +1811,12 @@ static int zcache_comp_init(void)
>  #else
>  	if (*zcache_comp_name != '\0') {
>  		ret = crypto_has_comp(zcache_comp_name, 0, 0);
> -		if (!ret)
> +		if (!ret) {
>  			pr_info("zcache: %s not supported\n",
>  					zcache_comp_name);
> -		goto out;
> +			ret = 1;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	if (!ret)
>  		strcpy(zcache_comp_name, "lzo");
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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