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Message-Id: <20230528164400.592092-1-princekumarmaurya06@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 09:44:00 -0700
From: Prince Kumar Maurya <princekumarmaurya06@...il.com>
To: skhan@...uxfoundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
brauner@...nel.org, chenzhongjin@...wei.com
Cc: Prince Kumar Maurya <princekumarmaurya06@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Null check to prevent null-ptr-deref bug
sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent) return a null ptr and taking lock on that leads to the null-ptr-deref bug.
Signed-off-by: Prince Kumar Maurya <princekumarmaurya06@...il.com>
---
fs/sysv/itree.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/sysv/itree.c b/fs/sysv/itree.c
index b22764fe669c..3a6b66e719fd 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/itree.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/itree.c
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ static int alloc_branch(struct inode *inode,
*/
parent = block_to_cpu(SYSV_SB(inode->i_sb), branch[n-1].key);
bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, parent);
+ if (!bh)
+ break;
lock_buffer(bh);
memset(bh->b_data, 0, blocksize);
branch[n].bh = bh;
--
2.40.1
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