[PATCH 4.0 117/220] mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f53e57975151f54ad8caa1b0ac8a78091cd5700a upstream.

lookup_mountpoint can return either NULL or an error value.
Update the test in __detach_mounts to test for an error value
to avoid pathological cases causing a NULL pointer dereferences.

The callers of __detach_mounts should prevent it from ever being
called on an unlinked dentry but don't take any chances.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/namespace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ void __detach_mounts(struct dentry *dent
 
 	namespace_lock();
 	mp = lookup_mountpoint(dentry);
-	if (!mp)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mp))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
 	lock_mount_hash();


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