The patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in __ocfs2_change_file_space()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ocfs2-fix-null-pointer-dereferrence-in-__ocfs2_change_file_space.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in __ocfs2_change_file_space()
As ocfs2_fallocate() will invoke __ocfs2_change_file_space() with a NULL
as the first parameter (file), it may trigger a NULL pointer dereferrence
due to a missing check.
Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006012
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Bret Towe <magnade@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Bret Towe <magnade@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/ocfs2/file.c~ocfs2-fix-null-pointer-dereferrence-in-__ocfs2_change_file_space fs/ocfs2/file.c
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c~ocfs2-fix-null-pointer-dereferrence-in-__ocfs2_change_file_space
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1950,7 +1950,7 @@ static int __ocfs2_change_file_space(str
if (ret < 0)
mlog_errno(ret);
- if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
+ if (file && (file->f_flags & O_SYNC))
handle->h_sync = 1;
ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
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