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SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/11] NFS: Introduce lifecycle management for label attribute.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, David P. Quigley wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
> +static inline void nfs_fattr_alloc(struct nfs_fattr *fattr, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> + fattr->label = kzalloc(NFS4_MAXLABELLEN, flags);
> + if (fattr->label == NULL)
> + panic("Can't allocate security label.");
> + fattr->label_len = NFS4_MAXLABELLEN;
> +}

A panic here seems like overkill, and also possibly a DoS vector. I
suggest having the calling code handle the allocation failure gracefully.

> +
> +#define nfs_fattr_fini(fattr) _nfs_fattr_fini(fattr, __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__)
> +static inline void _nfs_fattr_fini(struct nfs_fattr *fattr,
> + const char *file, int line, const char *func)
> +{
> + if ((fattr)->label == NULL) {
> + if (fattr->label_len != 0) {
> + printk(KERN_WARNING
> + "%s:%d %s() nfs_fattr label available (%d)\n",
> + file, line, func,
> + fattr->label_len);
> + }
> + } else {
> + if (fattr->label_len == NFS4_MAXLABELLEN)
> + printk(KERN_WARNING
> + "%s:%d %s() nfs_fattr label unused\n",
> + file, line, func);
> + else if (fattr->label_len != (strlen(fattr->label) + 1))
> + printk(KERN_WARNING
> + "%s:%d %s() nfs_fattr label size mismatch (label_len %d, strlen %d)\n",
> + file, line, func,
> + fattr->label_len, strlen(fattr->label) + 1);
> +
> + kfree(fattr->label);
> + fattr->label = NULL;
> + fattr->label_len = 0;
> + }
> +}
> +#else
> +#define nfs_fattr_alloc(fattr, flags)
> +#define nfs_fattr_fini(fattr)
> +#endif

Perhaps introduce a debug configuration option for this code.


- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


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