From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> In error cases the dentry may be NULL. Before 20798dfe249a, the encoder also checked dentry and d_really_is_positive(dentry), but that looks like overkill to me--zero status should be enough to guarantee a positive dentry. This isn't the first time we've seen an error-case NULL dereference hidden in the initialization of a local variable in an xdr encoder. But I went back through the other recent rewrites and didn't spot any similar bugs. Reported-by: JianHong Yin <jiyin@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 20798dfe249a ("NFSD: Update the NFSv3 GETACL result encoder...") Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c index a1591feeea22..5dfe7644a517 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static int nfs3svc_encode_getaclres(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p) struct nfsd3_getaclres *resp = rqstp->rq_resp; struct dentry *dentry = resp->fh.fh_dentry; struct kvec *head = rqstp->rq_res.head; - struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry); + struct inode *inode; unsigned int base; int n; int w; @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int nfs3svc_encode_getaclres(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p) return 0; switch (resp->status) { case nfs_ok: + inode = d_inode(dentry); if (!svcxdr_encode_post_op_attr(rqstp, xdr, &resp->fh)) return 0; if (xdr_stream_encode_u32(xdr, resp->mask) < 0) -- 2.31.1