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From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:28:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc:     Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>,
        overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:02 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:24 AM Ding Xiang
> <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com> wrote:
> >
> > if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated
> > and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned.
> >
> > V1->V2: fix SHA1 length problem
> >
> > Fixes: 9b6faee07470 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()")
> > Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/overlayfs/export.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
> > index cb8ec1f..50ade19 100644
> > --- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
> > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
> > @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int ovl_d_to_fh(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
> >                                 ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), !enc_lower);
> >         err = PTR_ERR(fh);
> >         if (IS_ERR(fh))
> > -               goto fail;
> > +               return err;
> >
>
> Please fix the code in warning message instead of skipping the warning.

Not sure that makes sense.   ovl_encode_real_fh() will either return
-EIO in case of an internal error with WARN_ON() or it will return
-ENOMEM on memory allocation failure, which doesn't warrant a debug
message.

Thanks,
Miklos