4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit 59a63e479ce36a3f24444c3a36efe82b78e4a8e0 ] RHBZ: 1021460 There is an issue where when multiple threads open/close the same directory ntwrk_buf_start might end up being NULL, causing the call to smbCalcSize later to oops with a NULL deref. The real bug is why this happens and why this can become NULL for an open cfile, which should not be allowed. This patch tries to avoid a oops until the time when we fix the underlying issue. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/readdir.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c index e169e1a5fd35..3925a7bfc74d 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c @@ -655,7 +655,14 @@ find_cifs_entry(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, loff_t pos, /* scan and find it */ int i; char *cur_ent; - char *end_of_smb = cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start + + char *end_of_smb; + + if (cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start == NULL) { + cifs_dbg(VFS, "ntwrk_buf_start is NULL during readdir\n"); + return -EIO; + } + + end_of_smb = cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start + server->ops->calc_smb_size( cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start, server); -- 2.19.1