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authorPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>2006-03-25 06:08:04 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-25 11:22:59 -0500
commit57070d012cd425c3a71663528c56a436abd2d9da (patch)
treeb5c4a356b9db70d59341695b8eca578d05f1972e /fs/compat.c
parent30087baf8810cd96b0ca2858993f29a89965ffff (diff)
[PATCH] compat_sys_nfsservctl(): handle errors correctly
Correct some error handling on the compat version of the nfsservctl() system. It was detecting errors while copying in the arguments from user space, but then attempting to use the arguments anyway. This didn't seem so good. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/compat.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 2a88477330fc..263990ae4096 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -2170,9 +2170,12 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_nfsservctl(int cmd, struct compat_nfsctl_arg __user *
2170 2170
2171 default: 2171 default:
2172 err = -EINVAL; 2172 err = -EINVAL;
2173 goto done; 2173 break;
2174 } 2174 }
2175 2175
2176 if (err)
2177 goto done;
2178
2176 oldfs = get_fs(); 2179 oldfs = get_fs();
2177 set_fs(KERNEL_DS); 2180 set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
2178 /* The __user pointer casts are valid because of the set_fs() */ 2181 /* The __user pointer casts are valid because of the set_fs() */