The Coverity checker noticed a path through nfsd4_lock() where we call release_lockowner(lock_sop); (at the 'out:' label) where 'lock_sop' is NULL. That goes bad since release_lockowner() calls unhash_lockowner() which dereferences its argument. release_lockowner() also calls nfs4_free_lockowner(), but that's not a problem since that function just calls kfree() and kmem_cache_free(), both of which are safe to call with NULL as argument. There are several ways to fix the bug. - rework nfsd4_lock() so the call to release_lockowner(NULL) will never happen. - let release_lockowner() test for NULL and return if given one. - let unhash_lockowner() test for NULL and return if given one (which makes both it and release_lockowner() safe). I chose the last option for this patch. For information, the path Coverity spotted (in defect report 201504) is this: 3950nfsd4_lock(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate, 3951 struct nfsd4_lock *lock) 3952{ 3953 struct nfs4_openowner *open_sop = NULL; CID 201504: Explicit null dereferenced (FORWARD_NULL) Assigning: "lock_sop" = 0. 3954 struct nfs4_lockowner *lock_sop = NULL; [...] 3964 At conditional (1): "nfsd_debug & 0x10U" taking the true branch. 3965 dprintk("NFSD: nfsd4_lock: start=%Ld length=%Ld\n", 3966 (long long) lock->lk_offset, 3967 (long long) lock->lk_length); 3968 At conditional (2): "check_lock_length(lock->lk_offset, lock->lk_length)" taking the false branch. 3969 if (check_lock_length(lock->lk_offset, lock->lk_length)) [...] At conditional (3): "status = fh_verify(rqstp, &cstate->current_fh, 32768/*unsigned short*/, 32)" taking the false branch. 3972 if ((status = fh_verify(rqstp, &cstate->current_fh, [...] 3976 } 3977 3978 nfs4_lock_state(); 3979 At conditional (4): "lock->lk_is_new" taking the true branch. 3980 if (lock->lk_is_new) { [...] At conditional (5): "nfsd4_has_session(cstate)" taking the true branch. 3988 if (nfsd4_has_session(cstate)) [...] At conditional (6): "1" taking the true branch. 3994 status = nfserr_stale_clientid; At conditional (7): "STALE_CLIENTID(&lock->v.new.clientid)" taking the false branch. 3995 if (STALE_CLIENTID(&lock->lk_new_clientid)) 3996 goto out; [...] At conditional (8): "status" taking the false branch. 4003 if (status) 4004 goto out; 4005 open_sop = openowner(open_stp->st_stateowner); At conditional (9): "1" taking the true branch. 4006 status = nfserr_bad_stateid; At conditional (10): "!same_clid(&open_sop->oo_owner.so_client->cl_clientid, &lock->v.new.clientid)" taking the false branch. 4007 if (!same_clid(&open_sop->oo_owner.so_client->cl_clientid, 4008 &lock->v.new.clientid)) 4009 goto out; 4010 status = lookup_or_create_lock_state(cstate, open_stp, lock, 4011 &lock_stp, &new_state); At conditional (11): "status" taking the true branch. 4012 if (status) 4013 goto out; [...] 4098out: At conditional (12): "status" taking the true branch. At conditional (13): "new_state" taking the true branch. 4099 if (status && new_state) Passing null variable "lock_sop" to function "release_lockowner", which dereferences it. [show details] 4100 release_lockowner(lock_sop); 4101 if (!cstate->replay_owner) 4102 nfs4_unlock_state(); 4103 return status; 4104} Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Patch is compile tested only. diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index e8c98f0..730a73b 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -520,6 +520,8 @@ static void unhash_lockowner(struct nfs4_lockowner *lo) { struct nfs4_ol_stateid *stp; + if (!lo) + return; list_del(&lo->lo_owner.so_strhash); list_del(&lo->lo_perstateid); list_del(&lo->lo_owner_ino_hash); -- 1.7.8.4 -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/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