The patch titled
affs: possible null pointer dereference in affs_rename()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
affs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-affs_rename.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: affs: possible null pointer dereference in affs_rename()
From: Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx>
If affs_bread() fails, the exit path calls mark_buffer_dirty_inode() with a
NULL argument.
Coverity CID: 312.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/affs/namei.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/affs/namei.c~affs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-affs_rename fs/affs/namei.c
--- 25/fs/affs/namei.c~affs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-affs_rename Wed May 24 14:37:42 2006
+++ 25-akpm/fs/affs/namei.c Wed May 24 14:37:42 2006
@@ -416,10 +416,9 @@ affs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struc
return retval;
}
- retval = -EIO;
bh = affs_bread(sb, old_dentry->d_inode->i_ino);
if (!bh)
- goto done;
+ return -EIO;
/* Remove header from its parent directory. */
affs_lock_dir(old_dir);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from fmalita@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-mtd.patch
git-netdev-all.patch
affs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-affs_rename.patch
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