[PATCH 1/7] GFS2: Fix an unchecked error from gfs2_rs_alloc

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Wed Nov 07 2012 - 05:41:46 EST


From: Andrew Price <anprice@xxxxxxxxxx>

Check the return value of gfs2_rs_alloc(ip) and avoid a possible null
pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/quota.c b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
index 40c4b0d..c5af8e1 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/quota.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/quota.c
@@ -497,8 +497,11 @@ int gfs2_quota_hold(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u32 uid, u32 gid)
struct gfs2_quota_data **qd;
int error;

- if (ip->i_res == NULL)
- gfs2_rs_alloc(ip);
+ if (ip->i_res == NULL) {
+ error = gfs2_rs_alloc(ip);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }

qd = ip->i_res->rs_qa_qd;

--
1.7.4

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