[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/7] GFS2: Fix possible null pointer deref in gfs2_rs_alloc

[Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

From: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>

Despite the return value from kmem_cache_zalloc() being checked, the
error wasn't being returned until after a possible null pointer
dereference. This patch returns the error immediately, allowing the
removal of the error variable.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
index 3cc402c..43d1a20 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.c
@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ void gfs2_free_clones(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd)
  */
 int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
 {
-	int error = 0;
 	struct gfs2_blkreserv *res;
 
 	if (ip->i_res)
@@ -561,7 +560,7 @@ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
 
 	res = kmem_cache_zalloc(gfs2_rsrv_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!res)
-		error = -ENOMEM;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	RB_CLEAR_NODE(&res->rs_node);
 
@@ -571,7 +570,7 @@ int gfs2_rs_alloc(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
 	else
 		ip->i_res = res;
 	up_write(&ip->i_rw_mutex);
-	return error;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void dump_rs(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_blkreserv *rs)
-- 
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