Hi,
On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 12:05 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This patch moves the dereference of "buffer" after the check for NULL.
> The only place which passes a NULL parameter is gfs2_set_acl().
>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
I've not heard anything from Al, so at least for the time being, I'm
putting this in the GFS2 tree, that way it will at least get some
exposure in -next,
Steve.
> diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
> index 11c54fd51e16..9e363e41dacc 100644
> --- a/fs/posix_acl.c
> +++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
> @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const struct posix_acl *acl,
> void *buffer, size_t size)
> {
> posix_acl_xattr_header *ext_acl = (posix_acl_xattr_header *)buffer;
> - posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
> + posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry;
> int real_size, n;
>
> real_size = posix_acl_xattr_size(acl->a_count);
> @@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const struct posix_acl *acl,
> return real_size;
> if (real_size > size)
> return -ERANGE;
> -
> +
> + ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
> ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(POSIX_ACL_XATTR_VERSION);
>
> for (n=0; n < acl->a_count; n++, ext_entry++) {
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