linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: fix dereference of ERR

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Message-Id: <1459937265-4364-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed,  6 Apr 2016 11:07:45 +0100
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] proc: fix dereference of ERR_PTR

On the unlikely event of a bad name, d_hash_and_lookup() can return the
error value in ERR_PTR(). And we were only checking the return value of
d_hash_and_lookup() to be NULL. In case it is not NULL and has some
error then d_inode() will try to dereference it later.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index b1755b2..a71df53 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1818,7 +1818,7 @@ bool proc_fill_cache(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx,
 	ino_t ino;
 
 	child = d_hash_and_lookup(dir, &qname);
-	if (!child) {
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(child)) {
 		child = d_alloc(dir, &qname);
 		if (!child)
 			goto end_instantiate;
-- 
2.1.4