Re: [PATCH 2/2] xattr: prevent NULL ptr deref warnings in__simple_xattr_set

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Sep 14 2012 - 16:55:54 EST


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:54:34PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:35:54PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Prevent warnings generated by smatch due to unchecked dereference of
> > 'new_xattr' in __simple_xattr_set().
>
> Isn't this an actual bug w/ or w/o smatch? Remove request (NULL
> @value) w/o XATTR_REPLACE for an non-existent node would end up
> calling list_add() on NULL, right? If so, please collapse these two
> patches and mention the actual bug instead of smatch warning.

And can somebody please make that function less confusing? -
restructuring / commenting whatever. It's doing something simple.
It's not supposed to be this confusing.

Thanks.

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tejun
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