PROBLEM: The function dict_serialized_length could, owing to an error, return a negative integer (-EINVAL) that gets assigned to an unsigned int member 'dict_len' of gf_setvolume_req structure. FIX: Hold the value returned by dict_serialized_length in local variable ret (which is a signed int). Test if ret is negative, in which case the control would anyway branch to the label fail where the function returns. Otherwise dict_len is assigned with ret, in turn giving a more meaningful value to the attribute length. TEST: Attached gdb to glusterfs mount process, set breakpoint at client_setvolume, forced dict_serialized_length to return -EINVAL (indirectly by forcing _dict_serialized_length to return -EINVAL after setting count to -1 within its body) and checked the value of ret (which is now sure to contain a negative value) whose value will be appropriately tested to decide the next course of action within client_setvolume: whether to simply exit due to an error or execute the subsequent statements. Change-Id: Ib22ad8f30d8ae04acaf2ff5bfee9c348a2c47148 BUG: 789278 Signed-off-by: Krutika Dhananjay <kdhananj@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/3755 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>