From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: fix notify_change() potential null dereference.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:37:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416213743.GS20937@redhat.com> (raw)
--- linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c~ 2004-04-16 22:36:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c 2004-04-16 22:36:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- mode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
+ mode_t mode;
int error;
struct timespec now = CURRENT_TIME;
unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@
if (!inode)
BUG();
+ mode = inode->i_mode;
attr->ia_ctime = now;
if (!(ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME_SET))
attr->ia_atime = now;
next reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-16 21:37 Dave Jones [this message]
2004-04-16 21:54 ` fix notify_change() potential null dereference Linus Torvalds
2004-04-16 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
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