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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix messed hunks in generic_setlease
Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> I have noticed, that one hunk was lost and one duplicated
> during merging the fix-potential-oops-in-generic_setlease(-xxx)
> patches. One of the fixes is already in the hot-fixes, but the
> second one is still lost.
>
> The returned pointer was not the one allocated, but some temporary
> used to scan through the inode's locks list. This caused and OOPS
> during Kamalesh's testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index c0fe71a..c1198e3 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -1423,7 +1418,7 @@ int generic_setlease(struct file *filp,
> locks_copy_lock(new_fl, lease);
> locks_insert_lock(before, new_fl);
>
> - *flp = fl;
> + *flp = new_fl;
> return 0;
>
> out:
>

Hi Pavel,

I tested your patch and NULL pointer dereference is not triggered.

--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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