Re: [PATCH 6.3 000/694] 6.3.2-rc2 review

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:30 AM Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have run 6.1.28-rc2 today, and was able to trigger the error. So
> definitely bad in both 6.3 and 6.1.
>
> [13812.020209] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
> [13812.021322] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [13812.022346] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [13812.023591] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [13812.024876] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> [13812.026088] CPU: 5 PID: 20386 Comm: .NET ThreadPool Not tainted 6.1.28-rc2 #1
> [13812.027336] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems
> NUC12WSKi7/NUC12WSBi7, BIOS WSADL357.0085.2022.0718.1739 07/18/2022
> [13812.028593] RIP: 0010:ntfs_lookup+0x76/0xe0 [ntfs3]

I suspect this is fixed in mainline by commit 6827d50b2c43 ("fs/ntfs3:
Refactoring of various minor issues") which changed the IS_ERR() check
into a IS_ERR_OR_NULL().

But dropping the original fix from stable might be the right thing to do.

                 Linus