Re: [PATCH 31/33] NFS - fix potential NULL pointer dereference v2

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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 17:13 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There is possible NULL pointer dereference if kstr[n]dup failed.
> 
> The logic in super.c and client.c shouldn't assume nfs_server.hostname  
> is non-NULL.  Can you say where the NULL dereference might happen?

Sure it does. See for instance all those dereferences of
nfs_client->cl_hostname. It has never been acceptable to set a null
hostname.


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