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SubjectRe: [PATCH] btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference
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On 2019/3/14 下午4:03, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>
>
> On 14.03.19 г. 10:02 ч., Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2019/3/14 下午3:54, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14.03.19 г. 9:50 ч., Kangjie Lu wrote:
>>>> btrfs_lookup_block_group may fail and return NULL. The fix goes
>>>> to out when it fails to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
>>>
>>> Actually no, in this case btrfs_lookup_block_group must never fail
>>> because if we have an allocated eb then it must have been allocated from
>>> a bg.
>>
>> Yep, that's the normal case.
>>
>> However I'm wondering if it's possible to get a bad eb which is cached.
>>
>> Then we could hit such situation.
>>
>> So I still believe being safe here still makes sense, especially who
>> knows future fuzzed image will be.
>
> Then I'd rather have ASSERT(cache)

Isn't assert() a bad idea for production build without assert() support?

Thanks,
Qu

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Qu
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
>>>> ---
>>>> fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 ++
>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>> index 994f0cc41799..b1e7985bcb9d 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
>>>> @@ -7303,6 +7303,8 @@ void btrfs_free_tree_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>>>>
>>>> pin = 0;
>>>> cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, buf->start);
>>>> + if (!cache)
>>>> + goto out;
>>>>
>>>> if (btrfs_header_flag(buf, BTRFS_HEADER_FLAG_WRITTEN)) {
>>>> pin_down_extent(fs_info, cache, buf->start,
>>>>
>>

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