linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/10] staging: lustre: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in lprocfs

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Date:	Wed,  4 Nov 2015 13:40:01 -0500
From:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org,
	Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] staging: lustre: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in lprocfs_status.c

From: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>

The imp->imp_connection really could be NULL, we better check for it
before dereferencing it in taht call to libcfs_nid2str_r.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6507
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/14808
Reviewed-by: Bob Glossman <bob.glossman@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
---
 .../lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c        |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
index 2de3c1b..dda5ad1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/lprocfs_status.c
@@ -665,15 +665,18 @@ int lprocfs_rd_import(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
 		seq_printf(m, "%s%s", j ? ", " : "", nidstr);
 		j++;
 	}
-	libcfs_nid2str_r(imp->imp_connection->c_peer.nid,
-			 nidstr, sizeof(nidstr));
+	if (imp->imp_connection != NULL)
+		libcfs_nid2str_r(imp->imp_connection->c_peer.nid,
+				 nidstr, sizeof(nidstr));
+	else
+		strncpy(nidstr, "<none>", sizeof(nidstr));
 	seq_printf(m,
 		      "]\n"
 		      "       current_connection: %s\n"
 		      "       connection_attempts: %u\n"
 		      "       generation: %u\n"
 		      "       in-progress_invalidations: %u\n",
-		      imp->imp_connection == NULL ? "<none>" : nidstr,
+		      nidstr,
 		      imp->imp_conn_cnt,
 		      imp->imp_generation,
 		      atomic_read(&imp->imp_inval_count));
-- 
1.7.1

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