linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Fix some error pointer dereferences

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Date:   Thu, 3 Jan 2019 14:38:11 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix some error pointer dereferences

We can't pass error pointers to brelse().

Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 7fddd519adae..6ddbbe21fdd8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ int ext4_get_inode_usage(struct inode *inode, qsize_t *usage)
 		bh = ext4_sb_bread(inode->i_sb, EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl, REQ_PRIO);
 		if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(bh);
+			bh = NULL;
 			goto out;
 		}
 
@@ -2903,6 +2904,7 @@ int ext4_xattr_delete_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			if (error == -EIO)
 				EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "block %llu read error",
 						 EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl);
+			bh = NULL;
 			goto cleanup;
 		}
 		error = ext4_xattr_check_block(inode, bh);
@@ -3059,6 +3061,7 @@ ext4_xattr_block_cache_find(struct inode *inode,
 		if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
 			if (PTR_ERR(bh) == -ENOMEM)
 				return NULL;
+			bh = NULL;
 			EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "block %lu read error",
 					 (unsigned long)ce->e_value);
 		} else if (ext4_xattr_cmp(header, BHDR(bh)) == 0) {
-- 
2.17.1