From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295E0C7618F for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCF522BF5 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:54:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1564181660; bh=0I8ibO4ILGJpL8erC1yuBP5LAOpyh2rkqKPnbsCnLuY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=edxOjbY6HNcAiWF3+wVL3y6lxzBA4xBPfMjVy4UK4yUc8Z77fsRkNZ9n6EtfZp2y/ 4bBch3sNPoepaPlmT1jgSMlhDCeCFSgcRqTFcTaPO3FpsZqgCZVDIbLnupW4eniWVS 7RyMWbhp1JVTOTwFUwXz+XL7rYaPk7gxrmYRBA24= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727860AbfGZWyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:54:18 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54894 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727483AbfGZWyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:54:18 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-223-200-170.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.223.200.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66CEC218B0; Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:54:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1564181657; bh=0I8ibO4ILGJpL8erC1yuBP5LAOpyh2rkqKPnbsCnLuY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=pK1MW8MvICaSKOlCQqHnQ9l6nuLWH6z5U/EVYmUGTyLWaJMRR5LGPnmkHYCxsAgVO blFDeY2cL9fAqNHU9VjvQ4Kfda8QxzbtCF2lQT8kJ+rUUblKp5A13I2P6xwKeiY4qq zxEv6sAEkwCslSXWueRrCDWR7IN/4kpH6j9BxHnE= Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:54:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jia-Ju Bai Cc: jack@suse.cz, arnd@arndb.de, linux.bhar@gmail.com, hariprasad.kelam@gmail.com, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: reiserfs: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in remove_from_transaction() Message-Id: <20190726155416.86f1b96302273b91129e6dc3@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20190726083838.8301-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> References: <20190726083838.8301-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:38:38 +0800 Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > In remove_from_transaction(), there is an if statement on line 3447 to > check whether bh is NULL: > if (bh) We already know that bh != NULL here. cn = get_journal_hash_dev(sb, journal->j_hash_table, blocknr); if (!cn || !cn->bh) { return ret; } bh = cn->bh; Please prepare a patch to remove the unneeded test?