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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] nfsd/nfs4acl: Number of used used array elements needs to be zeroed.
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    On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:40:48PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
    > On Sep. 04, 2008, 18:01 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
    > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:55:18PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
    > >> Number of used used array elements needs to be zeroed. It may cause
    > >> problems otherwise, because it's used uninitialized in find_uid().
    > >>
    > >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
    > >> ---
    > >> fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c | 2 ++
    > >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    > >>
    > >> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > >> index 54b8b41..7dcd90f 100644
    > >> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > >> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > >> @@ -447,11 +447,13 @@ init_state(struct posix_acl_state *state, int cnt)
    > >> state->users = kzalloc(alloc, GFP_KERNEL);
    > >> if (!state->users)
    > >> return -ENOMEM;
    > >> + state->users->n = 0;
    > >> state->groups = kzalloc(alloc, GFP_KERNEL);
    > >> if (!state->groups) {
    > >> kfree(state->users);
    > >> return -ENOMEM;
    > >> }
    > >> + state->groups->n = 0;
    > >> return 0;
    > >> }
    > >
    > > Thanks for the extra eyes on this code, but: surely the kzalloc()'s are
    > > all that's necessary? Am I missing something?
    >
    > quickly browsing over the code, shouldn't it be:
    >
    > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > index b6ed383..54b8b41 100644
    > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
    > @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ init_state(struct posix_acl_state *state, int cnt)
    > * enough space for either:
    > */
    > alloc = sizeof(struct posix_ace_state_array)
    > - + cnt*sizeof(struct posix_ace_state);
    > + + cnt*sizeof(struct posix_user_ace_state);
    > state->users = kzalloc(alloc, GFP_KERNEL);
    > if (!state->users)
    > return -ENOMEM;

    Yep, see 91b80969ba466ba4b915a4a1d03add8c297add3f.--b.


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