Re: Patch "NFSD fixing possible null pointer derefering in copy offload" has been added to the 5.5-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Mar 15 2020 - 04:21:31 EST


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 08:35:22PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> NFSD fixing possible null pointer derefering in copy offload
>
> to the 5.5-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> nfsd-fixing-possible-null-pointer-derefering-in-copy.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.5 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>
>
>
> commit a264e7b209f248f59b4fee0d1ed3fbde014a942e
> Author: Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Dec 4 15:13:54 2019 -0500
>
> NFSD fixing possible null pointer derefering in copy offload
>
> [ Upstream commit 2e577f0faca4640348c398cb85d60a1eedac4b1e ]
>
> Static checker revealed possible error path leading to possible
> NULL pointer dereferencing.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: e0639dc5805a: ("NFSD introduce async copy feature")
> Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> index 4798667af647c..91b64c15556e6 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> @@ -1223,7 +1223,8 @@ static void cleanup_async_copy(struct nfsd4_copy *copy)
> {
> nfs4_free_cp_state(copy);
> nfsd_file_put(copy->nf_dst);
> - nfsd_file_put(copy->nf_src);
> + if (copy->cp_intra)
> + nfsd_file_put(copy->nf_src);
> spin_lock(&copy->cp_clp->async_lock);
> list_del(&copy->copies);
> spin_unlock(&copy->cp_clp->async_lock);

This breaks the build here, and in 5.4, so I'll go drop it from both
trees :(

thanks,

greg k-h