linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 094/185] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer

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Message-ID: <lsq.1388282924.310055095@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:44 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Rashika Kheria" <rashika.kheria@...il.com>,
	"Jerome Marchand" <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	"Minchan Kim" <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 094/185] Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer

3.2.54-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@...il.com>

commit 46a51c80216cb891f271ad021f59009f34677499 upstream.

This patch fixes the bug in reset_store caused by accessing NULL pointer.

The bdev gets its value from bdget_disk() which could fail when memory
pressure is severe and hence can return NULL because allocation of
inode in bdget could fail.

Hence, this patch introduces a check for bdev to prevent reference to a
NULL pointer in the later part of the code. It also removes unnecessary
check of bdev for fsync_bdev().

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@...il.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device
 	zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
 	bdev = bdget_disk(zram->disk, 0);
 
+	if (!bdev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	/* Do not reset an active device! */
 	if (bdev->bd_holders)
 		return -EBUSY;
@@ -107,8 +110,7 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Make sure all pending I/O is finished */
-	if (bdev)
-		fsync_bdev(bdev);
+	fsync_bdev(bdev);
 
 	down_write(&zram->init_lock);
 	if (zram->init_done)

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