Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference

[Nikolay Borisov]

On 14.03.19 Ð. 9:50 Ñ., Kangjie Lu wrote:
> btrfs_lookup_block_group may fail and return NULL. The fix goes
> to out when it fails to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Actually no, in this case btrfs_lookup_block_group must never fail
because if we have an allocated eb then it must have been allocated from
a bg.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> index 994f0cc41799..b1e7985bcb9d 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> @@ -7303,6 +7303,8 @@ void btrfs_free_tree_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  
>  		pin = 0;
>  		cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, buf->start);
> +		if (!cache)
> +			goto out;
>  
>  		if (btrfs_header_flag(buf, BTRFS_HEADER_FLAG_WRITTEN)) {
>  			pin_down_extent(fs_info, cache, buf->start,
>