From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755871Ab3AMRq1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:46:27 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:35144 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755710Ab3AMRpu (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:45:50 -0500 Message-Id: <20130113174301.050077064@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:43:20 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Xi Wang , Trond Myklebust Subject: [ 25/49] nfs: fix null checking in nfs_get_option_str() In-Reply-To: <20130113174255.736888844@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Xi Wang commit e25fbe380c4e3c09afa98bcdcd9d3921443adab8 upstream. The following null pointer check is broken. *option = match_strdup(args); return !option; The pointer `option' must be non-null, and thus `!option' is always false. Use `!*option' instead. The bug was introduced in commit c5cb09b6f8 ("Cleanup: Factor out some cut-and-paste code."). Signed-off-by: Xi Wang Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/nfs/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c index c25cadf8..2e7e8c8 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/super.c +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c @@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ static int nfs_get_option_str(substring_t args[], char **option) { kfree(*option); *option = match_strdup(args); - return !option; + return !*option; } static int nfs_get_option_ul(substring_t args[], unsigned long *option)