Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: add sanity checks in __ext4_check_dir_entry

From: Ruslan Bilovol
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 07:17:43 EST


Hi Ted,

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 01:00:16PM +0300, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
>> Added checks for NULL before dereferencing some pointers
>>
>> + if (!de || !bh || !dir)
>> + return 1;
>
> Do you know which one of these pointers was NULL?

In my particular case, the ''de" pointer is NULL

Regards,
Ruslan

>
> I want't make sure we're fixing the root issue as opposed to papering
> over it. I'm not seeing how any of these pointers could have been
> NULL (at least in my upstream kernel), and while I believe that this
> helped for your kernel, I want to make sure we understand exactly what
> was going on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ted
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