On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Fred Isaman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > > The only guarantee is the assumption that the server isn't sending > garbage. As such, this patch looks good to me. > Thanks. Can I add your Acked-by: if/when I resend the patch? -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
