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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:09:24 +0900 From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org> Subject: [PATCH v2] kobject: return -ENOSPC when add_uevent_var() fails This function never attempts to allocate memory, so returning -ENOMEM looks weird to me. The reason of the failure is there is no more space in the given kobj_uevent_env structure. Let's change the error code to -ENOSPC. This patch is safe since this function had never failed in reality. The callers of this function put a fixed number of small strings into the buffer. The buffer is defined to be large enough: #define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */ #define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */ As you see WARN() in the error paths, any failure of this function is a software bug. If such a case had ever happened before, you would have already seen a noisy back-trace, then you would have increased UEVENT_NUM_ENVP or UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE. Nobody has ever increased UEVENT_NUM_ENVP or UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE since their addition, that is, this structure is always large enough. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> --- Changes in v2: - Rephrase the commit log. No code change. lib/kobject_uevent.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c index 7998affa45d4..5ffd44bf4aad 100644 --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent); * @env: environment buffer structure * @format: printf format for the key=value pair * - * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOMEM + * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOSPC * if no space was available. */ int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...) @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...) if (env->envp_idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(env->envp)) { WARN(1, KERN_ERR "add_uevent_var: too many keys\n"); - return -ENOMEM; + return -ENOSPC; } va_start(args, format); @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...) if (len >= (sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen)) { WARN(1, KERN_ERR "add_uevent_var: buffer size too small\n"); - return -ENOMEM; + return -ENOSPC; } env->envp[env->envp_idx++] = &env->buf[env->buflen]; -- 2.17.1
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