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author | Chengyu Song <csong84@gatech.edu> | 2015-04-15 01:43:44 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-15 02:48:58 +0300 |
commit | e2ac55b6a8e337fac7cc59c6f452caac92ab5ee6 (patch) | |
tree | 5f169fe79554f618b350761d7e428be64d7b084a /Documentation/module-signing.txt | |
parent | 762515a8e9c7ead55539cf96a63dec2363b1df50 (diff) | |
download | linux-e2ac55b6a8e337fac7cc59c6f452caac92ab5ee6.tar.xz |
ocfs2: incorrect check for debugfs returns
debugfs_create_dir and debugfs_create_file may return -ENODEV when debugfs
is not configured, so the return value should be checked against
ERROR_VALUE as well, otherwise the later dereference of the dentry pointer
would crash the kernel.
This patch tries to solve this problem by fixing certain checks. However,
I have that found other call sites are protected by #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS.
In current implementation, if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is defined, then the above
two functions will never return any ERROR_VALUE. So another possibility
to fix this is to surround all the buggy checks/functions with the same
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS. But I'm not sure if this would break any functionality,
as only OCFS2_FS_STATS declares dependency on DEBUG_FS.
Signed-off-by: Chengyu Song <csong84@gatech.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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