linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] cifsd: Fix a less than zero comparison with the unsigned int nbytes

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Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:37:04 +0900
From:   Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>,
        Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] cifsd: Fix a less than zero comparison with the
 unsigned int nbytes

2021-10-07 20:47 GMT+09:00, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Currently the check for nbytes < 0 is always false because nbytes
> is an unsigned int and can never be less than zero.  Fix this by
> using ret for the assignment and comparison and assigning nbytes
> to ret later if the check is successful. The fix also passes the
> error return in ret to the error handling path that caters for
> various values of ret.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
I think that this alarm is caused by 	b66732021c64 (ksmbd: add
validation in smb2_ioctl).
Fixes tag may be not needed. Because b66732021c64 patch is not applied
to Linus' tree yet ?
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>

Thanks!