If the i_security field isn't set then security_dentry_init_security() won't initialize some of the values used by the security label. This causes my client to hit a BUG_ON() while encoding a label of size -2128927414. I hit this bug while testing on a client without SELinux installed. Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index b8cd560..994ccc2 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ nfs4_label_init_security(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, if (nfs_server_capable(dir, NFS_CAP_SECURITY_LABEL) == 0) return NULL; + if (!dir->i_security) + return NULL; + err = security_dentry_init_security(dentry, sattr->ia_mode, &dentry->d_name, (void **)&label->label, &label->len); if (err == 0) -- 1.9.0 -- 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