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From: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, eparis@redhat.com,
	rgb@redhat.com, tixxdz@opendz.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	bill.c.roberts@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: potential ERR_PTR dereference on proc_fill_cache()
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:47:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140811024720.GA11337@devel.8.8.4.4> (raw)

The d_hash_and_lookup() returns NULL or ERR_PTR on lookup
failure.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index f50d4be..49bc09c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ bool proc_fill_cache(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx,
 	ino_t ino;
 
 	child = d_hash_and_lookup(dir, &qname);
-	if (!child) {
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(child)) {
 		child = d_alloc(dir, &qname);
 		if (!child)
 			goto end_instantiate;
-- 
1.7.1


             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-11  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11  2:47 Daeseok Youn [this message]
2014-08-11  3:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-11  5:43   ` DaeSeok Youn

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