Acked-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 2:04 AM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> in cifs_do_create we check if newinode is valid before referencing it
> but are missing the check in one place in fs/cifs/dir.c
>
> Addresses-Coverity: 1357292 ("Dereference after null check")
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/cifs/dir.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> index 912333082b18..aca6ed58cc44 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> @@ -384,10 +384,11 @@ cifs_do_create(struct inode *inode, struct
> dentry *direntry, unsigned int xid,
> goto out_err;
> }
>
> - if (S_ISDIR(newinode->i_mode)) {
> - rc = -EISDIR;
> - goto out_err;
> - }
> + if (newinode)
> + if (S_ISDIR(newinode->i_mode)) {
> + rc = -EISDIR;
> + goto out_err;
> + }
>
> d_drop(direntry);
> d_add(direntry, newinode);
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
