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authorFlorin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>2006-05-20 14:59:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-05-21 12:59:17 -0700
commit9ccfc29c671c9d0a83c2a114d4bc5f85f3cd749d (patch)
treea02d2712a788abb4c5891e9c469c99b770fa0dbb /fs/nfsd
parent2adc7d47c4dbf684e69ee3980c158ff684dc170e (diff)
downloadlinux-9ccfc29c671c9d0a83c2a114d4bc5f85f3cd749d.tar.gz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfsd')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/vfs.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
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;