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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: fix notify_change() potential null dereference.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:37:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416213743.GS20937@redhat.com> (raw)


--- linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c~	2004-04-16 22:36:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c	2004-04-16 22:36:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
-	mode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
+	mode_t mode;
 	int error;
 	struct timespec now = CURRENT_TIME;
 	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@
 	if (!inode)
 		BUG();
 
+	mode = inode->i_mode;
 	attr->ia_ctime = now;
 	if (!(ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME_SET))
 		attr->ia_atime = now;

             reply	other threads:[~2004-04-16 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-16 21:37 Dave Jones [this message]
2004-04-16 21:54 ` fix notify_change() potential null dereference Linus Torvalds
2004-04-16 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig

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