Re: fix notify_change() potential null dereference.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:37:43PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> --- linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c~	2004-04-16 22:36:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.5/fs/attr.c	2004-04-16 22:36:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
>  int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
>  {
>  	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> -	mode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
> +	mode_t mode;

Passing a NULL argument to notify_change() is invalid.

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