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From: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cem@kernel.org, djwong@kernel.org,
	Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: fix null pointer dereference in tracepoint
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2026 11:41:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709094116.2025306-1-aalbersh@kernel.org> (raw)

If dfp is not NULL we exit early here, when dfp is NULL it's allocated
in xfs_defer_alloc() but not assigned. The tracepoint tries to
dereference members of dfp struct.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c
index c6909716b041..89501e8bd2f8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_defer.c
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ xfs_defer_add_barrier(
 	if (dfp)
 		return;
 
-	xfs_defer_alloc(&tp->t_dfops, &xfs_barrier_defer_type);
+	dfp = xfs_defer_alloc(&tp->t_dfops, &xfs_barrier_defer_type);
 
 	trace_xfs_defer_add_item(tp->t_mountp, dfp, NULL);
 }
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-09  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09  9:41 Andrey Albershteyn [this message]
2026-07-09 14:27 ` [PATCH] xfs: fix null pointer dereference in tracepoint Darrick J. Wong

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