Re: [PATCH][next] nfsd: fix check of statid returned from call to find_stateid_by_type

[Chuck Lever]

Hi Dan-

> On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:05:06PM +0000, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> Hi Colin-
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2021, at 9:49 AM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> The call to find_stateid_by_type is setting the return value in *stid
>>> yet the NULL check of the return is checking stid instead of *stid.
>>> Fix this by adding in the missing pointer * operator.
>>> 
>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
>>> Fixes: 6cdaa72d4dde ("nfsd: find_cpntf_state cleanup")
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Thanks for your patch. I've committed it to the for-next branch at
>> 
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git
>> 
>> in preparation for the v5.12 merge window, with the following changes:
>> 
>> - ^statid^stateid
>> - Fixes: tag removed, since no stable backport is necessary
>> 
>> The commit you are fixing has not been merged upstream yet.
> 
> Fixes tags don't meant the patch has to be backported.  Is your tree
> rebased?  In that case, the fixes tag probably doesn't make sense
> because the tag can change.  You might want to just consider folding
> Colin's fix into the original commit.

Yes, this branch can be rebased on occasion. Since you and Bruce
suggest squashing the fix into the original patch, I will do that.


> Fixes tags are used for a lot of different things:
> 1)  If there is a fixes tag, then you can tell it does *NOT* have to
>    be back ported because the original commit is not in the stable
>    tree.  It saves time for the stable maintainers.
> 2)  Metrics to figure out how quickly we are fixing bugs.
> 3)  Sometimes the Fixes tag helps because we want to review the original
>    patch to see what the intent was.
> 
> All sorts of stuff.  Etc.

Yep, I'm a fan of all that. I just want to avoid poking the stable
automation bear when it's unnecessary.

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Chuck Lever