From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 21:59:58 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: sign conversion obscuring errors in nfsd_set_posix_acl()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc5~68
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ccfc29c671c9d0a83c2a114d4bc5f85f3cd749d;p=karo-tx-linux.git

[PATCH] nfsd: sign conversion obscuring errors in nfsd_set_posix_acl()

Assigning the result of posix_acl_to_xattr() to an unsigned data type
(size/size_t) obscures possible errors.

Coverity CID: 1206.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 6aa92d0e6876..1d65f13f458c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1922,11 +1922,10 @@ nfsd_set_posix_acl(struct svc_fh *fhp, int type, struct posix_acl *acl)
 		value = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!value)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		size = posix_acl_to_xattr(acl, value, size);
-		if (size < 0) {
-			error = size;
+		error = posix_acl_to_xattr(acl, value, size);
+		if (error < 0)
 			goto getout;
-		}
+		size = error;
 	} else
 		size = 0;