Re: [PATCH][next] block/rnbd: fix a null pointer dereference on dev->blk_symlink_name

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Dec 07 2020 - 10:01:47 EST


On 12/7/20 7:54 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently in the case where dev->blk_symlink_name fails to be allocates
> the error return path attempts to set an end-of-string character to
> the unallocated dev->blk_symlink_name causing a null pointer dereference
> error. Fix this by returning with an explicity ENOMEM error (which also
> is missing in the original code as was not initialized).

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe