3.16.58-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx> commit a7ec7a4193a2eb3b5341243fc0b621c1ac9e4ec4 upstream. An HFS+ filesystem can be mounted read-only without having a metadata directory, which is needed to support hardlinks. But if the catalog data is corrupted, a directory lookup may still find dentries claiming to be hardlinks. hfsplus_lookup() does check that ->hidden_dir is not NULL in such a situation, but mistakenly does so after dereferencing it for the first time. Reorder this check to prevent a crash. This happens when looking up corrupted catalog data (dentry) on a filesystem with no metadata directory (this could only ever happen on a read-only mount). Wen Xu sent the replication steps in detail to the fsdevel list: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712215344.q44dyrhymm4ajkao@eaf Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Wen Xu <wen.xu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/hfsplus/dir.c +++ b/fs/hfsplus/dir.c @@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ again: cpu_to_be32(HFSP_HARDLINK_TYPE) && entry.file.user_info.fdCreator == cpu_to_be32(HFSP_HFSPLUS_CREATOR) && + HFSPLUS_SB(sb)->hidden_dir && (entry.file.create_date == HFSPLUS_I(HFSPLUS_SB(sb)->hidden_dir)-> create_date || entry.file.create_date == HFSPLUS_I(sb->s_root->d_inode)-> - create_date) && - HFSPLUS_SB(sb)->hidden_dir) { + create_date)) { struct qstr str; char name[32];