[PATCH] CIFS: CIFSSMBRead was returning an invalid pointer in buf on socket error
Thanks to Adrian Bunk for debugging the problem and to Shaggy for
helping find the solution.
Also added a fix for 64K pages we found in loosely-related testing
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 217323b..b41e8b3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -1048,13 +1048,14 @@
cifs_small_buf_release(iov[0].iov_base);
else if(resp_buf_type == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER)
cifs_buf_release(iov[0].iov_base);
- } else /* return buffer to caller to free */ /* BB FIXME how do we tell caller if it is not a large buffer */ {
- *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+ } else if(resp_buf_type != CIFS_NO_BUFFER) {
+ /* return buffer to caller to free */
+ *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
if(resp_buf_type == CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER)
*pbuf_type = CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER;
else if(resp_buf_type == CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER)
*pbuf_type = CIFS_LARGE_BUFFER;
- }
+ } /* else no valid buffer on return - leave as null */
/* Note: On -EAGAIN error only caller can retry on handle based calls
since file handle passed in no longer valid */