[PATCH v2] pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 14:41:03 EST


If a pstore backend doesn't want to support various portions of the
pstore interface, it can just leave those functions NULL instead of
creating no-op stubs.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 3 ++-
fs/pstore/platform.c | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 379a02d..b3b426e 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct pstore_private *p = dentry->d_inode->i_private;

- p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, p->psi);
+ if (p->psi->erase)
+ p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, p->psi);

return simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
}
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index f146d89..c970a66 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -203,12 +203,11 @@ void pstore_get_records(int quiet)
struct timespec time;
int failed = 0, rc;

- if (!psi)
+ if (!psi || !psi->read)
return;

mutex_lock(&psi->read_mutex);
- rc = psi->open(psi);
- if (rc)
+ if (psi->open && psi->open(psi))
goto out;

while ((size = psi->read(&id, &type, &time, &buf, psi)) > 0) {
@@ -219,7 +218,8 @@ void pstore_get_records(int quiet)
if (rc && (rc != -EEXIST || !quiet))
failed++;
}
- psi->close(psi);
+ if (psi->close)
+ psi->close(psi);
out:
mutex_unlock(&psi->read_mutex);

--
1.7.0.4

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