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authorDing Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>2019-09-09 16:29:56 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-05 13:10:08 +0200
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ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
commit 97f024b9171e74c4443bbe8a8dce31b917f97ac5 upstream. if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned. Fixes: 9b6faee07470 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()") Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+ Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/export.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
index 54e5d17d7f3e..6fe303850c9e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
@@ -230,9 +230,8 @@ static int ovl_d_to_fh(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
/* Encode an upper or lower file handle */
fh = ovl_encode_real_fh(enc_lower ? ovl_dentry_lower(dentry) :
ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), !enc_lower);
- err = PTR_ERR(fh);
if (IS_ERR(fh))
- goto fail;
+ return PTR_ERR(fh);
err = -EOVERFLOW;
if (fh->len > buflen)