linux-kernel - [PATCH] ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR

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Message-Id: <1568017796-27513-1-git-send-email-dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Date:   Mon,  9 Sep 2019 16:29:56 +0800
From:   Ding Xiang <dingxiang@...s.chinamobile.com>
To:     miklos@...redi.hu, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated
and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned.

Fixes: 9b6faee0747 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()")
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@...s.chinamobile.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/export.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
index cb8ec1f..50ade19 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int ovl_d_to_fh(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
 				ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), !enc_lower);
 	err = PTR_ERR(fh);
 	if (IS_ERR(fh))
-		goto fail;
+		return err;
 
 	err = -EOVERFLOW;
 	if (fh->len > buflen)
-- 
1.9.1