[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "nfsd: add get_uint for u32's" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    nfsd: add get_uint for u32's

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b47b1c954ef29224941dbfeec1ad229fe77f3029 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:54:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: add get_uint for u32's

commit a007c4c3e943ecc054a806c259d95420a188754b upstream.

I don't think there's a practical difference for the range of values
these interfaces should see, but it would be safer to be unambiguous.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/export.c             |  6 +++---
 include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/export.c b/fs/nfsd/export.c
index ba23349..1114463 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/export.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/export.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ fsloc_parse(char **mesg, char *buf, struct nfsd4_fs_locations *fsloc)
 	int migrated, i, err;

 	/* listsize */
-	err = get_int(mesg, &fsloc->locations_count);
+	err = get_uint(mesg, &fsloc->locations_count);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 	if (fsloc->locations_count > MAX_FS_LOCATIONS)
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ static int secinfo_parse(char **mesg, char *buf, struct svc_export *exp)
 		return -EINVAL;

 	for (f = exp->ex_flavors; f < exp->ex_flavors + listsize; f++) {
-		err = get_int(mesg, &f->pseudoflavor);
+		err = get_uint(mesg, &f->pseudoflavor);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 		/*
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int secinfo_parse(char **mesg, char *buf, struct svc_export *exp)
 		 * problem at export time instead of when a client fails
 		 * to authenticate.
 		 */
-		err = get_int(mesg, &f->flags);
+		err = get_uint(mesg, &f->flags);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 		/* Only some flags are allowed to differ between flavors: */
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
index f5fd616..dd2bb84 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
@@ -228,6 +228,22 @@ static inline int get_int(char **bpp, int *anint)
 	return 0;
 }

+static inline int get_uint(char **bpp, unsigned int *anint)
+{
+	char buf[50];
+	int len = qword_get(bpp, buf, sizeof(buf));
+
+	if (len < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (len == 0)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	if (kstrtouint(buf, 0, anint))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * timestamps kept in the cache are expressed in seconds
  * since boot.  This is the best for measuring differences in
--
1.8.1.2