linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 1/1] test_firmware: return ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC on failed allocation

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Date:   Mon,  5 Jun 2023 18:27:47 +0200
From:   Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/1] test_firmware: return ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC on failed allocation

In a couple of situations like:

	name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!name)
		return -ENOSPC;

the error is not actually "No space left on device", but "Out of memory".

So, it is semantically correct to return -ENOMEM in all failed kstrndup()
and kzalloc() cases in this driver, as it is not a problem with disk
space, but with kernel memory allocator.

The semantically correct should be:

        name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!name)
                return -ENOMEM;

Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
---
 lib/test_firmware.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_firmware.c b/lib/test_firmware.c
index 1d7d480b8eeb..add4699fc6cd 100644
--- a/lib/test_firmware.c
+++ b/lib/test_firmware.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int __kstrncpy(char **dst, const char *name, size_t count, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	*dst = kstrndup(name, count, gfp);
 	if (!*dst)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_request_store(struct device *dev,
 
 	name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!name)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	pr_info("loading '%s'\n", name);
 
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_request_platform_store(struct device *dev,
 
 	name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!name)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	pr_info("inserting test platform fw '%s'\n", name);
 	efi_embedded_fw.name = name;
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_async_request_store(struct device *dev,
 
 	name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!name)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	pr_info("loading '%s'\n", name);
 
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static ssize_t trigger_custom_fallback_store(struct device *dev,
 
 	name = kstrndup(buf, count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!name)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	pr_info("loading '%s' using custom fallback mechanism\n", name);
 
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ static int test_fw_run_batch_request(void *data)
 
 		test_buf = kzalloc(TEST_FIRMWARE_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!test_buf)
-			return -ENOSPC;
+			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		if (test_fw_config->partial)
 			req->rc = request_partial_firmware_into_buf
-- 
2.34.1