linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 045/178] ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:48:01 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 045/178] ext4: add missing error check in __ext4_new_inode()

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

commit 996fc4477a0ea28226b30d175f053fb6f9a4fa36 upstream.

It's possible for ext4_get_acl() to return an ERR_PTR.  So we need to
add a check for this case in __ext4_new_inode().  Otherwise on an
error we can end up oops the kernel.

This was getting triggered by xfstests generic/388, which is a test
which exercises the shutdown code path.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -816,6 +816,8 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(handle_t
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL
 		struct posix_acl *p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
 
+		if (IS_ERR(p))
+			return ERR_CAST(p);
 		if (p) {
 			int acl_size = p->a_count * sizeof(ext4_acl_entry);