Re: [PATCH 1/1] nfsd: incorrect check for debugfs returns

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:58:05 -0400
Chengyu Song <csong84@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> debugfs_create_dir and debugfs_create_file may return -ENODEV when debugfs
> is not configured, so the return value should be checked against ERROR_VALUE
> as well, otherwise the later dereference of the dentry pointer would crash
> the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengyu Song <csong84@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c b/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> index c16bf5a..621d065 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/fault_inject.c
> @@ -132,19 +132,23 @@ int nfsd_fault_inject_init(void)
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	struct nfsd_fault_inject_op *op;
>  	umode_t mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> +	struct dentry *dent;
>  
> -	debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir("nfsd", NULL);
> -	if (!debug_dir)
> +	dent = debugfs_create_dir("nfsd", NULL);
> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dent))
>  		goto fail;
> +	debug_dir = dent;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < NUM_INJECT_OPS; i++) {
>  		op = &inject_ops[i];
> -		if (!debugfs_create_file(op->file, mode, debug_dir, op, &fops_nfsd))
> +		dent = debugfs_create_file(op->file, mode, debug_dir, op, &fops_nfsd);
> +		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dent))
>  			goto fail;
> +
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  
>  fail:
>  	nfsd_fault_inject_cleanup();
> -	return -ENOMEM;
> +	return dent ? PTR_ERR(dent) : -ENOMEM;
>  }

No objection to taking this patch in the near term if it helps, but we
had discussed over the summer just removing the NFS fault injection
framework.

Bruce, any objections to making that happen for v4.1?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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