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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sysfs_drop_dentry(): possible NULL dereference
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:22:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070319092211.GG752@stusta.de> (raw)

The Coverity checker spotted the following incorrect part of
commit 94bebf4d1b8e7719f0f3944c037a21cfd99a4af7:

<--  snip  -->

...
 void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent * sd, struct dentry * parent)
 {
        struct dentry * dentry = sd->s_dentry;
+       struct inode *inode;
 
        if (dentry) {
                spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
                spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
                if (!(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)) {
+                       inode = dentry->d_inode;
+                       spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
...

<--  snip  -->

If (!dentry->d_inode), then it's a NULL dereference.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-19  9:22 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-03-19 10:09 ` Oliver Neukum

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