Re: NFS thinko

[Russell King]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:16:28PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> Dereferencing 'exp' before the check for NULL.

Hmm.  If we're referencing 'ek' to get at exp, 'ek' isn't an error,
so it shouldn't be passed into PTR_ERR().

> --- linux-2.6.5/include/linux/nfsd/export.h~	2004-04-16 22:13:28.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.5/include/linux/nfsd/export.h	2004-04-16 22:14:21.000000000 +0100
> @@ -118,13 +118,15 @@
>  	if (ek && !IS_ERR(ek)) {
>  		struct svc_export *exp = ek->ek_export;
>  		int err;
> +		if (!exp)
> +			goto out;
>  		cache_get(&exp->h);
>  		expkey_put(&ek->h, &svc_expkey_cache);
> -		if (exp &&
> -		    (err = cache_check(&svc_export_cache, &exp->h, reqp)))
> +		if (err = cache_check(&svc_export_cache, &exp->h, reqp))
>  			exp = ERR_PTR(err);
>  		return exp;
>  	} else
> +out:
>  		return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(ek));
>  }

-- 
Russell King
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