From: Jaegeuk Kim Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:24:28 +0000 (+0900) Subject: f2fs: avoid null dereference in f2fs_acl_from_disk X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1b75eabec4eddce55ebb078f84481f58272878f;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git f2fs: avoid null dereference in f2fs_acl_from_disk This patch resolves Coverity #751303: >>> CID 753103: Explicit null dereferenced (FORWARD_NULL) Passing null >>> pointer "value" to function "f2fs_acl_from_disk(char const *, size_t)", which dereferences it. [Error path] - value = NULL; - retval = 0 by f2fs_getxattr(); - f2fs_acl_from_disk(value:NULL, ...); Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim --- diff --git a/fs/f2fs/acl.c b/fs/f2fs/acl.c index e95b94945d5f..137af4255da6 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/acl.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/acl.c @@ -191,15 +191,14 @@ struct posix_acl *f2fs_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type) retval = f2fs_getxattr(inode, name_index, "", value, retval); } - if (retval < 0) { - if (retval == -ENODATA) - acl = NULL; - else - acl = ERR_PTR(retval); - } else { + if (retval > 0) acl = f2fs_acl_from_disk(value, retval); - } + else if (retval == -ENODATA) + acl = NULL; + else + acl = ERR_PTR(retval); kfree(value); + if (!IS_ERR(acl)) set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);