[PATCH 1/2] GFS2: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Fri Nov 22 2013 - 05:35:54 EST


From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>

Commit [e66cf1610: GFS2: Use lockref for glocks] replaced call:
atomic_read(&gi->gl->gl_ref) == 0
with:
__lockref_is_dead(&gl->gl_lockref)
therefore changing how gl is accessed, from gi->gl to plan gl.
However, gl can be a NULL pointer, and so gi->gl needs to be
used instead (which is guaranteed not to be NULL because fo
the while loop checking that condition).

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index e66a800..c8420f7 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -1899,7 +1899,8 @@ static int gfs2_glock_iter_next(struct gfs2_glock_iter *gi)
gi->nhash = 0;
}
/* Skip entries for other sb and dead entries */
- } while (gi->sdp != gi->gl->gl_sbd || __lockref_is_dead(&gl->gl_lockref));
+ } while (gi->sdp != gi->gl->gl_sbd ||
+ __lockref_is_dead(&gi->gl->gl_lockref));

return 0;
}
--
1.8.3.1

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