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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NFS: nfsaclsvc_encode_getaclres() - Fix potential NULL deref and tiny optimization.
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 00:01, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > 3) There are two locations in the function where we may return before
> > > we use the value of the variable 'w', but we compute it at the very top
> > > of the function. So in the case where we return early we have wasted a
> > > few cycles computing a value that was never used.

Computing w later in the function is fine.

> > w should be an unsigned int.
>
> Makes sense.

No, this breaks the while loop further below: with an unsigned int, the loop
counter underflows and wraps.

Please fix this identically in fs/nfsd/nfs2acl.c and fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c.

Thanks,
Andreas
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