linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix error handling in UVERBS

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Date:   Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:41:23 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Moni Shoua <monis@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Fix error handling in UVERBS_HANDLER

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 02:13:35AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Currently, if uverbs_attr_ptr_get_array_size() fails, the returned error
> turns into a huge value, once it is being store into a variable of type
> size_t (unsigned long), hence never actually reporting such error and
> causing unexpected behavior when executing function
> mlx5_ib_create_modify_header().
>
> Fix this by changing the type of variable num_actions from size_t to
> int.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1475957 ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: cbfdd442c43e ("IB/uverbs: Add helper to get array size from ptr attribute")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/flow.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for fixing it, but I see that Dam already sent fix for that.

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