Re: [PATCH] cifs: Avoid error pointer dereference

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tentatively merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next pending more testing

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:48 AM Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The patch 7d6535b72042: "cifs: Simplify reconnect code when dfs
> upcall is enabled" leads to the following static checker warning:
>
>         fs/cifs/connect.c:160 reconn_set_next_dfs_target()
>         error: 'server->hostname' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
>
> Avoid dereferencing the error pointer by early returning on error
> condition.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 509a41ff56b8..b9df85506938 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static void reconn_set_next_dfs_target(struct TCP_Server_Info *server,
>                 cifs_dbg(FYI,
>                          "%s: failed to extract hostname from target: %ld\n",
>                          __func__, PTR_ERR(server->hostname));
> +               return;
>         }
>
>         rc = reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname(server);
> --
> 2.29.2
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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