2.3.99-pre5: NULL pointer dereference with root on NFS

From: Daniel Marmier (daniel.marmier@lightning.ch)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 01:17:41 EST

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When booting 2.3.99-pre5 with root filesystem on NFS, I get a NULL
pointer dereference in fs/nfs/mount_clnt.c:xdr_decode_fhstatus (l. 124)
It is easily fixed by removing the line

memset((u8 *)res, 0, sizeof(*res));

that causes the pointer res->fh to be cleared. I guess the same applies
to function xdr_decode_fhstatus3.

Daniel Marmier

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