Coverity says:
*** CID 1202537: Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL)
/fs/cifs/file.c: 2873 in cifs_user_readv()
2867 cur_len = min_t(const size_t, len - total_read, cifs_sb->rsize);
2868 npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(cur_len, PAGE_SIZE);
2869
2870 /* allocate a readdata struct */
2871 rdata = cifs_readdata_alloc(npages,
2872 cifs_uncached_readv_complete);
>>> CID 1202537: Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL)
>>> Comparing "rdata" to null implies that "rdata" might be null.
2873 if (!rdata) {
2874 rc = -ENOMEM;
2875 goto error;
2876 }
2877
2878 rc = cifs_read_allocate_pages(rdata, npages);
...when we "goto error", rc will be non-zero, and then we end up trying
to do a kref_put on the rdata (which is NULL). Fix this by replacing
the "goto error" with a "break".
Reported-by: <scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 8616256cb93f..325b74798ef3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -2872,7 +2872,7 @@ ssize_t cifs_user_readv(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
cifs_uncached_readv_complete);
if (!rdata) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
- goto error;
+ break;
}
rc = cifs_read_allocate_pages(rdata, npages);
--
1.9.0
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