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From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Andreas Gruenbacher" <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: "David Rientjes" <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: nfsaclsvc_encode_getaclres() - Fix potential NULL deref and tiny optimization.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:40:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490610310840w28d44a88xd1db60b155c03f52@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610311726.00411.agruen@suse.de>

On 31/10/06, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 00:01, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > 3) There are two locations in the function where we may return before
> > > > we use the value of the variable 'w', but we compute it at the very top
> > > > of the function. So in the case where we return early we have wasted a
> > > > few cycles computing a value that was never used.
>
> Computing w later in the function is fine.
>
> > > w should be an unsigned int.
> >
> > Makes sense.
>
> No, this breaks the while loop further below: with an unsigned int, the loop
> counter underflows and wraps.
>
Whoops. OK.

> Please fix this identically in fs/nfsd/nfs2acl.c and fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c.
>
Sure thing, expect patches later this evening.

BTW: I posted an add-on patch on top of my first one - apart from the
"make w unsigned" bit, is the rest of that OK?

-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-27 21:16 Jesper Juhl
2006-10-27 21:46 ` David Rientjes
2006-10-27 22:01   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-31 16:26     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-10-31 16:40       ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-10-31 20:39       ` David Rientjes
2006-11-02 15:07         ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-10-31 20:39       ` Small optimization for nfs3acl. (was: Re: [PATCH] NFS: nfsaclsvc_encode_getaclres() - Fix potential NULL deref and tiny optimization.) Jesper Juhl
2006-11-02 15:06         ` Andreas Gruenbacher

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