[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] ext4: propagate error if creation of directory entry fails

[Stefan Brüns]

In case the dir entry creation failed, ext4fs_write would later overwrite
a random inode, as inodeno was never initialized.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4_common.c | 12 ++++++------
 fs/ext4/ext4_common.h |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/ext4_write.c  |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
index 3ecd9a8..b8c37cf 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static int check_void_in_dentry(struct ext2_dirent *dir, char *filename)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int *p_ino, int file_type)
+int ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int file_type)
 {
 	unsigned int *zero_buffer = NULL;
 	char *root_first_block_buffer = NULL;
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ void ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int *p_ino, int file_type)
 	unsigned int last_entry_dirlen;
 	int sizeof_void_space = 0;
 	int templength = 0;
-	int inodeno;
+	int inodeno = -1;
 	int status;
 	struct ext_filesystem *fs = get_fs();
 	/* directory entry */
@@ -371,13 +371,13 @@ void ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int *p_ino, int file_type)
 	zero_buffer = zalloc(fs->blksz);
 	if (!zero_buffer) {
 		printf("No Memory\n");
-		return;
+		return -1;
 	}
 	root_first_block_buffer = zalloc(fs->blksz);
 	if (!root_first_block_buffer) {
 		free(zero_buffer);
 		printf("No Memory\n");
-		return;
+		return -1;
 	}
 restart:
 
@@ -496,8 +496,6 @@ restart:
 	temp_dir = temp_dir + sizeof(struct ext2_dirent);
 	memcpy(temp_dir, filename, strlen(filename));
 
-	*p_ino = inodeno;
-
 	/* update or write  the 1st block of root inode */
 	if (ext4fs_put_metadata(root_first_block_buffer,
 				first_block_no_of_root))
@@ -506,6 +504,8 @@ restart:
 fail:
 	free(zero_buffer);
 	free(root_first_block_buffer);
+
+	return inodeno;
 }
 
 static int search_dir(struct ext2_inode *parent_inode, char *dirname)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.h
index 370a717..cc9d0c5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_common.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_common.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ int ext4fs_iterate_dir(struct ext2fs_node *dir, char *name,
 uint32_t ext4fs_div_roundup(uint32_t size, uint32_t n);
 uint16_t ext4fs_checksum_update(unsigned int i);
 int ext4fs_get_parent_inode_num(const char *dirname, char *dname, int flags);
-void ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int *p_ino, int file_type);
+int ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(char *filename, int file_type);
 uint32_t ext4fs_get_new_blk_no(void);
 int ext4fs_get_new_inode_no(void);
 void ext4fs_reset_block_bmap(long int blockno, unsigned char *buffer,
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_write.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_write.c
index f5811aa..4235b95 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_write.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_write.c
@@ -890,7 +890,9 @@ int ext4fs_write(const char *fname, unsigned char *buffer,
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(filename, &inodeno, FILETYPE_REG);
+	inodeno = ext4fs_update_parent_dentry(filename, FILETYPE_REG);
+	if (inodeno == -1)
+		goto fail;
 	/* prepare file inode */
 	inode_buffer = zalloc(fs->inodesz);
 	if (!inode_buffer)
-- 
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