linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: ptlrpc: sec_config.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 23:42:08 +0200
From:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: ptlrpc: sec_config.c:  Fix for possible null pointer dereference

There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference.

Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
index bf56120..231656e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec_config.c
@@ -745,11 +745,13 @@ void sptlrpc_conf_log_update_begin(const char *logname)
 	mutex_lock(&sptlrpc_conf_lock);
 
 	conf = sptlrpc_conf_get(fsname, 0);
-	if (conf && conf->sc_local) {
-		LASSERT(conf->sc_updated == 0);
-		sptlrpc_conf_free_rsets(conf);
+	if (conf) {
+		if(conf->sc_local) {
+			LASSERT(conf->sc_updated == 0);
+			sptlrpc_conf_free_rsets(conf);
+		}
+		conf->sc_modified = 0;
 	}
-	conf->sc_modified = 0;
 
 	mutex_unlock(&sptlrpc_conf_lock);
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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