Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] hfs, hfsplus: Fix NULL pointer dereference in hfs_find_init()

[Dan Carpenter]

Yeah, the patch doesn't work at all.  I looked at one call tree and it
is:

hfs_mdb_get() tries to allocate HFS_SB(sb)->ext_tree.

	HFS_SB(sb)->ext_tree = hfs_btree_open(sb, HFS_EXT_CNID, hfs_ext_keycmp);
                    ^^^^^^^^

hfs_btree_open() calls page = read_mapping_page(mapping, 0, NULL);
read_mapping_page() calls mapping->a_ops->readpage() which leads to
hfs_readpage() which leads to hfs_ext_read_extent() which calls
res = hfs_find_init(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->ext_tree, &fd);
                                         ^^^^^^^^

So we need ->ext_tree to be non-NULL before we can set ->ext_tree to be
non-NULL...  :/

I wonder how long this has been broken and if we should just delete the
AFS file system.

regards,
dan carpenter