In some specific situation, the return value of __bch_btree_node_alloc may be NULL. This may lead to poential NULL pointer dereference in caller function like a calling chaion : btree_split->bch_btree_node_alloc->__bch_btree_node_alloc. Fix it by initialize return value in __bch_btree_node_alloc before return. Fixes: cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") Signed-off-by: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c index 147c493a989a..35346c1d7c3c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c @@ -1090,10 +1090,12 @@ struct btree *__bch_btree_node_alloc(struct cache_set *c, struct btree_op *op, struct btree *parent) { BKEY_PADDED(key) k; - struct btree *b = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN); + struct btree *b; mutex_lock(&c->bucket_lock); retry: + /* return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) when it fails */ + b = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN); if (__bch_bucket_alloc_set(c, RESERVE_BTREE, &k.key, wait)) goto err; @@ -1138,7 +1140,7 @@ static struct btree *btree_node_alloc_replacement(struct btree *b, { struct btree *n = bch_btree_node_alloc(b->c, op, b->level, b->parent); - if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(n)) { + if (!IS_ERR(n)) { mutex_lock(&n->write_lock); bch_btree_sort_into(&b->keys, &n->keys, &b->c->sort); bkey_copy_key(&n->key, &b->key); @@ -1352,7 +1354,7 @@ static int btree_gc_coalesce(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op, for (i = 0; i < nodes; i++) { new_nodes[i] = btree_node_alloc_replacement(r[i].b, NULL); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(new_nodes[i])) + if (IS_ERR(new_nodes[i])) goto out_nocoalesce; } @@ -1669,7 +1671,7 @@ static int bch_btree_gc_root(struct btree *b, struct btree_op *op, if (should_rewrite) { n = btree_node_alloc_replacement(b, NULL); - if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(n)) { + if (!IS_ERR(n)) { bch_btree_node_write_sync(n); bch_btree_set_root(n); diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index ba3909bb6bea..92de714fe75e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@ static int run_cache_set(struct cache_set *c) err = "cannot allocate new btree root"; c->root = __bch_btree_node_alloc(c, NULL, 0, true, NULL); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(c->root)) + if (IS_ERR(c->root)) goto err; mutex_lock(&c->root->write_lock); -- 2.25.1