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From: Marco Munderloh <munderl@tnt.uni-hannover.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] catch acl==NULL in __jfs_set_acl (fixed null pointer dereference)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535FEFDE.405@tnt.uni-hannover.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140429182602.GD5929@linux.intel.com>

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> You don't need to initialise rc here.

Yes, you are true. I missed the __jfs_setxattr before the set_cached_acl.

But why not, more simply:
> 
> +++ b/fs/jfs/acl.c
> @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ static int __jfs_set_acl(tid_t tid, struct inode *inode, int t
>         switch (type) {
>         case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
>                 ea_name = POSIX_ACL_XATTR_ACCESS;
> +               if (!acl)
> +                       break;
>                 rc = posix_acl_equiv_mode(acl, &inode->i_mode);
>                 if (rc < 0)
>                         return rc;

I could have done it like this, but I copied the way it was done in btrfs/acl.c, where the jfs implementation seems to come from.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-29 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-29 17:59 [PATCH V2] catch acl==NULL in __jfs_set_acl (fixed null pointer dereference) Marco Munderloh
2014-04-29 18:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2014-04-29 18:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-29 18:33     ` Marco Munderloh
2014-04-29 18:30   ` Marco Munderloh [this message]

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