Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Thu Mar 14 2019 - 04:16:14 EST




On 14.03.19 Ð. 10:13 Ñ., Kangjie Lu wrote:
> btrfs_lookup_block_group may fail and return NULL. The fix uses
> assert to ensure cache is not NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>

>
> ---
> V2: use assert as suggested by Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> index 994f0cc41799..80d7c272d282 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
> @@ -7303,6 +7303,7 @@ void btrfs_free_tree_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>
> pin = 0;
> cache = btrfs_lookup_block_group(fs_info, buf->start);
> + ASSERT(cache);
>
> if (btrfs_header_flag(buf, BTRFS_HEADER_FLAG_WRITTEN)) {
> pin_down_extent(fs_info, cache, buf->start,
>