[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "rbd: fix error handling from rbd_snap_name()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    rbd: fix error handling from rbd_snap_name()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e129e5b1c038d51371223e71bc59ee0be4693016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin at inktank.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:57:31 -0700
Subject: rbd: fix error handling from rbd_snap_name()

commit da6a6b63978d45f9ae582d1f362f182012da3a22 upstream.

rbd_snap_name() calls rbd_dev_v{1,2}_snap_name() depending on the
format of the image. The format 1 version returns NULL on error, which
is handled by the caller. The format 2 version returns an ERR_PTR,
which the caller of rbd_snap_name() does not expect.

Fortunately this is unlikely to occur in practice because
rbd_snap_id_by_name() is called before rbd_snap_name(). This would hit
similar errors to rbd_snap_name() (like the snapshot not existing) and
return early, so rbd_snap_name() would not hit an error unless the
snapshot was removed between the two calls or memory was exhausted.

Use an ERR_PTR in rbd_dev_v1_snap_name() so that the specific error
can be propagated, and it is consistent with rbd_dev_v2_snap_name().
Handle the ERR_PTR in the only rbd_snap_name() caller.

Suggested-by: Alex Elder <alex.elder at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin at inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/rbd.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
index 9a2e922..1af45c2 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -927,12 +927,14 @@ static const char *rbd_dev_v1_snap_name(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev,
 					u64 snap_id)
 {
 	u32 which;
+	const char *snap_name;

 	which = rbd_dev_snap_index(rbd_dev, snap_id);
 	if (which == BAD_SNAP_INDEX)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);

-	return _rbd_dev_v1_snap_name(rbd_dev, which);
+	snap_name = _rbd_dev_v1_snap_name(rbd_dev, which);
+	return snap_name ? snap_name : ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }

 static const char *rbd_snap_name(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev, u64 snap_id)
@@ -4163,8 +4165,8 @@ static int rbd_dev_spec_update(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev)
 	/* Look up the snapshot name, and make a copy */

 	snap_name = rbd_snap_name(rbd_dev, spec->snap_id);
-	if (!snap_name) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
+	if (IS_ERR(snap_name)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(snap_name);
 		goto out_err;
 	}

--
1.8.3.2