Re: [PATCH 10/10] staging: lustre: fix error deref in ll_splice_alias().

[James Simmons]

> d_splice_alias() can return an ERR_PTR().
> If it does while debugging is enabled, the following
> CDEBUG() will dereference that error and crash.
> 
> So add appropriate checking, and provide a separate
> debug message for the error case.

Yeah!!! It fixed the issues. Thank you.

Reviewed-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
> Reported-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: e9d4f0b9f559 ("staging: lustre: llite: use d_splice_alias for directories.")
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c |    8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
> index 6c9ec462eb41..24a6873d86a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
> @@ -442,11 +442,15 @@ struct dentry *ll_splice_alias(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *de)
>  	} else {
>  		struct dentry *new = d_splice_alias(inode, de);
>  
> +		if (IS_ERR(new))
> +			CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "splice inode %p as %pd gives error %lu\n",
> +			       inode, de, PTR_ERR(new));
>  		if (new)
>  			de = new;
>  	}
> -	CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "Add dentry %p inode %p refc %d flags %#x\n",
> -	       de, d_inode(de), d_count(de), de->d_flags);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(de))
> +		CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "Add dentry %p inode %p refc %d flags %#x\n",
> +		       de, d_inode(de), d_count(de), de->d_flags);
>  	return de;
>  }
>  
> 
> 
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