From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 03313d1c3a2f086bb60920607ab79ac8f8578306 ] The optional @ref parameter might contain an NULL node_name, so prevent dereferencing it in cifs_compose_mount_options(). Addresses-Coverity: 1476408 ("Explicit null dereferenced") Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c index cc3ada12848d..42125601ebb1 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c @@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ char *cifs_compose_mount_options(const char *sb_mountdata, return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); if (ref) { + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ref->node_name || ref->path_consumed < 0)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (strlen(fullpath) - ref->path_consumed) { prepath = fullpath + ref->path_consumed; /* skip initial delimiter */ -- 2.30.2