From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] afs: potential null dereference
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:19:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100320111938.GT5331@bicker> (raw)
It seems clear from the surrounding code that xpermits is allowed to be
NULL here.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
diff --git a/fs/afs/security.c b/fs/afs/security.c
index 3ef5043..bb4ed14 100644
--- a/fs/afs/security.c
+++ b/fs/afs/security.c
@@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ void afs_cache_permit(struct afs_vnode *vnode, struct key *key, long acl_order)
if (!permits)
goto out_unlock;
- memcpy(permits->permits, xpermits->permits,
- count * sizeof(struct afs_permit));
+ if (xpermits)
+ memcpy(permits->permits, xpermits->permits,
+ count * sizeof(struct afs_permit));
_debug("key %x access %x",
key_serial(key), vnode->status.caller_access);
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-20 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-20 11:19 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-03-22 12:05 ` [patch] afs: potential null dereference David Howells
2010-03-22 12:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-03-22 13:05 ` David Howells
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2010-03-22 13:07 [PATCH] AFS: Potential " David Howells
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