Re: [PATCH][next] nfsd: fix check of statid returned from call to find_stateid_by_type

[Chuck Lever]

Hi Colin-

> On Jan 28, 2021, at 9:49 AM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The call to find_stateid_by_type is setting the return value in *stid
> yet the NULL check of the return is checking stid instead of *stid.
> Fix this by adding in the missing pointer * operator.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: 6cdaa72d4dde ("nfsd: find_cpntf_state cleanup")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch. I've committed it to the for-next branch at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git

in preparation for the v5.12 merge window, with the following changes:

- ^statid^stateid
- Fixes: tag removed, since no stable backport is necessary

The commit you are fixing has not been merged upstream yet.


> ---
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> index f554e3480bb1..423fd6683f3a 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> @@ -5824,7 +5824,7 @@ static __be32 find_cpntf_state(struct nfsd_net *nn, stateid_t *st,
> 
> 	*stid = find_stateid_by_type(found, &cps->cp_p_stateid,
> 			NFS4_DELEG_STID|NFS4_OPEN_STID|NFS4_LOCK_STID);
> -	if (stid)
> +	if (*stid)
> 		status = nfs_ok;
> 	else
> 		status = nfserr_bad_stateid;
> -- 
> 2.29.2
> 

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Chuck Lever