Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Eric Paris <> | Subject | [PATCH] securityfs: securityfs_remove should handle IS_ERR pointers | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 20:47:15 -0400 |
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Both of the securityfs users (TPM and IMA) can call securityfs_remove and pass an IS_ERR(dentry) in their failure paths. This patch handles those rather than panicing when it tries to start deferencing some negative memory.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> ---
security/inode.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c index f3b91bf..f7496c6 100644 --- a/security/inode.c +++ b/security/inode.c @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry) { struct dentry *parent; - if (!dentry) + if (!dentry || IS_ERR(dentry)) return; parent = dentry->d_parent;
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