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* [PATCH] fix NULL dereference in inotify_ignore
@ 2006-05-20  4:45 Amy Griffis
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From: Amy Griffis @ 2006-05-20  4:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: John McCutchan, Robert Love

Don't reassign to watch.  If idr_find() returns NULL, then
put_inotify_watch will choke.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>

diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c
index 7d57253..5d4ba7c 100644
--- a/fs/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/inotify.c
@@ -889,18 +889,17 @@ static int inotify_ignore(struct inotify
 	get_inotify_watch(watch);
 	inode = watch->inode;
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->inotify_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
 
 	/* make sure that we did not race */
-	watch = idr_find(&dev->idr, wd);
-	if (likely(watch))
+	if (likely(idr_find(&dev->idr, wd) == watch))
 		remove_watch(watch, dev);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->inotify_mutex);
 	put_inotify_watch(watch);
 
 	return 0;
 }

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