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cifs: Use kstrndup for cifs_sb->mountdata
authorSean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:19:34 +0000 (13:19 +0000)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 19 May 2011 14:10:55 +0000 (14:10 +0000)
A relatively minor nit, but also clarified the "consensus" from the
preceding comments that it is in fact better to try for the kstrdup
early and cleanup while cleaning up is still a simple thing to do.

Reviewed-By: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Finney <seanius@seanius.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c

index 0f6a54f14eff428bc1b64ac98944bb623312cead..bb39afcc6f3862e71bf1688822684ec40ea4e9ae 100644 (file)
@@ -129,24 +129,19 @@ cifs_read_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data,
        cifs_sb->bdi.ra_pages = default_backing_dev_info.ra_pages;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
-       /* copy mount params to sb for use in submounts */
-       /* BB: should we move this after the mount so we
-        * do not have to do the copy on failed mounts?
-        * BB: May be it is better to do simple copy before
-        * complex operation (mount), and in case of fail
-        * just exit instead of doing mount and attempting
-        * undo it if this copy fails?*/
+       /*
+        * Copy mount params to sb for use in submounts. Better to do
+        * the copy here and deal with the error before cleanup gets
+        * complicated post-mount.
+        */
        if (data) {
-               int len = strlen(data);
-               cifs_sb->mountdata = kzalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+               cifs_sb->mountdata = kstrndup(data, PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (cifs_sb->mountdata == NULL) {
                        bdi_destroy(&cifs_sb->bdi);
                        kfree(sb->s_fs_info);
                        sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
                        return -ENOMEM;
                }
-               strncpy(cifs_sb->mountdata, data, len + 1);
-               cifs_sb->mountdata[len] = '\0';
        }
 #endif