Re: cifs: fix return value in cifsConvertToUTF16

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:18:19 +0100
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> Hey, I sent you that exact same patch on the 12th June!  Would have saved you and others some valuable time if you hadn't ignored it then!  (-;
> 
> Told you it was an obvious logic bug!  (-;
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Anton
> 
> On 22 Sep 2012, at 21:28, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127
> > Commit:     c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127
> > Parent:     4651afbbae968772efd6dc4ba461cba9b49bb9d8
> > Author:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Sep 18 14:21:01 2012 -0400
> > Committer:  Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> > CommitDate: Tue Sep 18 15:35:25 2012 -0500
> > 
> >    cifs: fix return value in cifsConvertToUTF16
> > 
> >    This function returns the wrong value, which causes the callers to get
> >    the length of the resulting pathname wrong when it contains non-ASCII
> >    characters.
> > 
> >    This seems to fix https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6767
> > 
> >    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >    Reported-by: Baldvin Kovacs <baldvin.kovacs@gmail.com>
> >    Reported-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Lefebvre <nico.lefebvre@gmail.com>
> >    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> >    Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c |    2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> > index 7dab9c0..53cf2aa 100644
> > --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> > +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
> > @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
> > 	}
> > 
> > ctoUTF16_out:
> > -	return i;
> > +	return j;
> > }
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2
> 

My apologies, Anton. I would have just asked Steve to include that
patch instead of reposting it, but I didn't recall seeing you post it
to the list.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>