Re: [PATCH] ceph: quota: fix null pointer dereference in quota check

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Tue Nov 06 2018 - 08:00:20 EST




> On Nov 5, 2018, at 19:00, Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch fixes a possible null pointer dereference in
> check_quota_exceeded, detected by the static checker smatch, with the
> following warning:
>
> fs/ceph/quota.c:240 check_quota_exceeded()
> error: we previously assumed 'realm' could be null (see line 188)
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/20181101065318.2cylxol6d444nzeu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: b7a2921765cf ("ceph: quota: support for ceph.quota.max_files")
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ceph/quota.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/quota.c b/fs/ceph/quota.c
> index 32d4f13784ba..03f4d24db8fe 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/quota.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/quota.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ static bool check_quota_exceeded(struct inode *inode, enum quota_check_op op,
> ceph_put_snap_realm(mdsc, realm);
> realm = next;
> }
> - ceph_put_snap_realm(mdsc, realm);
> + if (realm)
> + ceph_put_snap_realm(mdsc, realm);
> up_read(&mdsc->snap_rwsem);
>
> return exceeded;

Applied, thanks.

Yan, Zheng