From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Subject: dereference before check in ext4_move_extents()
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:43:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120513184321.GA16541@elgon.mountain> (raw)
Hi, going through some static checker warnings and reporting bugs.
These were introduced a long time ago.
The patch 748de6736c1e: "ext4: online defrag -- Add EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ioctl" from Jun 17, 2009, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
fs/ext4/move_extent.c:1381 ext4_move_extents()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'holecheck_path' (see line 1292)
fs/ext4/move_extent.c
1291 ext_prev = ext_cur;
1292 last_extent = mext_next_extent(orig_inode, holecheck_path,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dereferenced unconditionally inside the mext_next_extent() function.
1293 &ext_cur);
1294 if (last_extent < 0) {
1295 ret1 = last_extent;
1296 break;
1297 }
[snip]
1376 double_down_write_data_sem(orig_inode, donor_inode);
1377 if (ret1 < 0)
1378 break;
1379
1380 /* Decrease buffer counter */
1381 if (holecheck_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Checked here.
1382 ext4_ext_drop_refs(holecheck_path);
1383 ret1 = get_ext_path(orig_inode, seq_start, &holecheck_path);
regards,
dan carpenter
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-13 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-13 18:43 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-05-14 8:30 ` dereference before check in ext4_move_extents() Akira Fujita
2012-05-14 8:51 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-15 2:01 ` Akira Fujita
2012-05-15 10:51 ` Dan Carpenter
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