[PATCH 5.12 162/173] NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 09226e8303beeec10f2ff844d2e46d1371dc58e0 ]

None of the callers are expecting NULL returns from nfs_get_client() so
this code will lead to an Oops.  It's better to return an error
pointer.  I expect that this is dead code so hopefully no one is
affected.

Fixes: 31434f496abb ("nfs: check hostname in nfs_get_client")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index ff5c4d0d6d13..686b211342a8 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs_get_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init)
 
 	if (cl_init->hostname == NULL) {
 		WARN_ON(1);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	/* see if the client already exists */
-- 
2.30.2