Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix null pointer dereference on ofs allocation failure.

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Fri Nov 10 2017 - 03:54:55 EST


On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The current error exit path when ofs fails to allocate jumps
> to clean-up code that calls ovl_free_fs resulting in a null pointer
> dereference on the null ovl pointer. Fix this by simply returning
> with the -ENOMEM status in err.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1461284 ("Dereference after null check")


Thanks, fixed.

Miklos