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* [PATCH 1/2] staging: lustre: lov: fix dereference of ERR_PTR
@ 2015-09-08 16:23 Sudip Mukherjee
  2015-09-08 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: lustre: lov: remove always false condition Sudip Mukherjee
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sudip Mukherjee @ 2015-09-08 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oleg Drokin, Andreas Dilger, Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: linux-kernel, HPDD-discuss, devel, Sudip Mukherjee

If lov_sub_get() fails then it returns the error code in ERR_PTR, but
here we were dereferencing sub without checking if lov_sub_get() has
actually succeeded or not. And on error we can directly return the error
code from lov_io_fault_start() as it return 0 on success and the error
code on error.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c
index bf36291..b5b2580 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c
@@ -729,6 +729,8 @@ static int lov_io_fault_start(const struct lu_env *env,
 	fio = &ios->cis_io->u.ci_fault;
 	lio = cl2lov_io(env, ios);
 	sub = lov_sub_get(env, lio, lov_page_stripe(fio->ft_page));
+	if (IS_ERR(sub))
+		return PTR_ERR(sub);
 	sub->sub_io->u.ci_fault.ft_nob = fio->ft_nob;
 	lov_sub_put(sub);
 	return lov_io_start(env, ios);
-- 
1.9.1


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