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

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On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:21 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Whether or not cl_hostname is dereferenced, you need to fix  
> export_path too.

<confused>Which the patch does. What is your point?</confused>

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