[PATCH 5.4 72/84] NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-14T11:03:15Z

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 09226e8303beeec10f2ff844d2e46d1371dc58e0 ]

None of the callers are expecting NULL returns from nfs_get_client() so
this code will lead to an Oops. It's better to return an error
pointer. I expect that this is dead code so hopefully no one is
affected.

Fixes: 31434f496abb ("nfs: check hostname in nfs_get_client")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index a05f77f9c21e..af838d1ed281 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs_get_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init)

if (cl_init->hostname == NULL) {
WARN_ON(1);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}

/* see if the client already exists */
--
2.30.2