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

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, May 02 2018, James Simmons wrote:

>> 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.

:-)
So I've made it "Reported-and-tested-by: James"

Thanks,
NeilBrown


>
> 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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