Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference from orig_data in fill_super and remount.

[Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 11:01:51PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> Fix NULL pointer dereference from orig_data in fill_super and remount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>

Um, did you even try to test this patch before submitting it?

#1:   kstrdup() return NULL if data is NULL

#2:  The kernel's printk and sprintf functions will translate
     sprintf(buf, "%s", NULL) by filling in the string "NULL"

#3:  The only use of orig_data is a cosmetic one, of printing out
     the mount options which are passed in.

#4:  If the user doesn't specify any mount options, data is NULL, and
     your patch would cause those mounts to fail with ENOMEM.

In summary, there is no problem here; a pendant might complain that
it's possible for data to be non-NULL, and for orig_data to be null of
the kstrdup failed, but in that case, other memory allocations done
later in ext4_fill_super() will almost have certainly failed, so in
practice won't get as far as the printk.

					- Ted