Re: [PATCH] securityfs: securityfs_remove should handle IS_ERRpointers

[James Morris]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Eric Paris wrote:

> Both of the securityfs users (TPM and IMA) can call securityfs_remove and pass
> an IS_ERR(dentry) in their failure paths.  This patch handles those rather
> than panicing when it tries to start deferencing some negative memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

> ---
> 
>  security/inode.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
> index f3b91bf..f7496c6 100644
> --- a/security/inode.c
> +++ b/security/inode.c
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>  	struct dentry *parent;
>  
> -	if (!dentry)
> +	if (!dentry || IS_ERR(dentry))
>  		return;
>  
>  	parent = dentry->d_parent;
> 

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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