On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30:09PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > Now that parameters that have the flag 'fs_param_can_be_empty' set and > their value is NULL are handled as 'flag' type, we need to properly check > for empty (NULL) values. > > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c > index 0f931d0c227d..44ba2212dfb3 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/super.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c > @@ -2183,12 +2183,12 @@ static int ext4_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param) > switch (token) { > #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA > case Opt_usrjquota: > - if (!*param->string) > + if (!param->string) > return unnote_qf_name(fc, USRQUOTA); I fail to understand how that can happen. Currently both of these options are parsed as strings via: #define fsparam_string_empty(NAME, OPT) \ __fsparam(fs_param_is_string, NAME, OPT, fs_param_can_be_empty, NULL) So if someone sets fsconfig(..., FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "usrquota", NULL, ...) we give an immediate case FSCONFIG_SET_STRING: if (!_key || !_value || aux) return -EINVAL; from fsconfig() so we know that param->string cannot be NULL. If that were the case we'd NULL deref in fs_param_is_string(): int fs_param_is_string(struct p_log *log, const struct fs_parameter_spec *p, struct fs_parameter *param, struct fs_parse_result *result) { if (param->type != fs_value_is_string || (!*param->string && !(p->flags & fs_param_can_be_empty))) So you're check above seems wrong. If I'm mistaken, please explain, how this can happen in detail.