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cifs: change bleft in decode_unicode_ssetup back to signed type

The buffer length checks in this function depend on this value being a
signed data type, but 690c522fa converted it to an unsigned type.

Also, eliminate a problem with the null termination check in the same
function. cifs_strndup_from_ucs handles that situation correctly
already, and the existing check could potentially lead to a buffer
overrun since it increments bleft without checking to see whether it
falls off the end of the buffer.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Jeff Layton 14 years ago
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1 changed files with 1 additions and 14 deletions
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      fs/cifs/sess.c

+ 1 - 14
fs/cifs/sess.c

@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static void ascii_ssetup_strings(char **pbcc_area, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 }
 
 static void
-decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, __u16 bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
+decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, int bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 		      const struct nls_table *nls_cp)
 {
 	int len;
@@ -284,19 +284,6 @@ decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, __u16 bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 
 	cFYI(1, "bleft %d", bleft);
 
-	/*
-	 * Windows servers do not always double null terminate their final
-	 * Unicode string. Check to see if there are an uneven number of bytes
-	 * left. If so, then add an extra NULL pad byte to the end of the
-	 * response.
-	 *
-	 * See section 2.7.2 in "Implementing CIFS" for details
-	 */
-	if (bleft % 2) {
-		data[bleft] = 0;
-		++bleft;
-	}
-
 	kfree(ses->serverOS);
 	ses->serverOS = cifs_strndup_from_ucs(data, bleft, true, nls_cp);
 	cFYI(1, "serverOS=%s", ses->serverOS);