Re: [PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix wrong error return in rxrpc_connect_call()

From: Alexander H Duyck
Date: Thu Jan 12 2023 - 12:35:29 EST


On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 18:07 +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> Fix rxrpc_connect_call() to return -ENOMEM rather than 0 if it fails to
> look up a peer.
>
> This generated a smatch warning:
> net/rxrpc/call_object.c:303 rxrpc_connect_call() warn: missing error code 'ret'
>
> I think this also fixes a syzbot-found bug:
>
> rxrpc: Assertion failed - 1(0x1) == 11(0xb) is false
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/call_object.c:645!
>
> where the call being put is in the wrong state - as would be the case if we
> failed to clear up correctly after the error in rxrpc_connect_call().
>
> Fixes: 9d35d880e0e4 ("rxrpc: Move client call connection to the I/O thread")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+4bb6356bb29d6299360e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202301111153.9eZRYLf1-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> ---
> net/rxrpc/call_object.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
> index 3ded5a24627c..f3c9f0201c15 100644
> --- a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
> +++ b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static void rxrpc_put_call_slot(struct rxrpc_call *call)
> static int rxrpc_connect_call(struct rxrpc_call *call, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> struct rxrpc_local *local = call->local;
> - int ret = 0;
> + int ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> _enter("{%d,%lx},", call->debug_id, call->user_call_ID);
>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@xxxxxx>