Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:48:54 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH] blk-mq: protect debugfs_create_files() from failures |
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If debugfs were to return a non-NULL error for a debugfs call, using that pointer later in debugfs_create_files() would crash.
Fix that by properly checking the pointer before referencing it.
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c index 90d68760af08..777638f597aa 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c +++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c @@ -838,6 +838,9 @@ static const struct blk_mq_debugfs_attr blk_mq_debugfs_ctx_attrs[] = { static bool debugfs_create_files(struct dentry *parent, void *data, const struct blk_mq_debugfs_attr *attr) { + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(parent)) + return false; + d_inode(parent)->i_private = data; for (; attr->name; attr++) { -- 2.20.1
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