Jesper Juhl:
> strrchr() can return NULL if nothing is found. If this happens we'll
> dereference a NULL pointer in
> fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c::decode_and_add_ds().
>
> I tried to find some other code that guarantees that this can never
> happen but I was unsuccessful. So, unless someone else can point to some
> code that ensures this can never be a problem, I believe this patch is
> needed.
>
> While I was changing this code I also noticed that all the dprintk()
> statements, except one, start with "%s:". The one missing the ":" I added
> it to.
Maybe another one also should be changed at decode_and_add_ds() at line 243:
243 printk("%s Decoded address and port %s\n", __func__, buf);
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thanks
Mi Jinlong
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> nfs4filelayoutdev.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> only compile tested.
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> index 51fe64a..5a85b8f 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
>
> /* ipv6 length plus port is legal */
> if (rlen > INET6_ADDRSTRLEN + 8) {
> - dprintk("%s Invalid address, length %d\n", __func__,
> + dprintk("%s: Invalid address, length %d\n", __func__,
> rlen);
> goto out_err;
> }
> @@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
> /* replace the port dots with dashes for the in4_pton() delimiter*/
> for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
> char *res = strrchr(buf, '.');
> + if (!res) {
> + dprintk("%s: Failed finding expected dots in port\n",
> + __func__);
> + goto out_free;
> + }
> *res = '-';
> }
>
>
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