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NFS4: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in decode_and_add_ds().

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Mi Jinlong wrote:

>
>
> Jesper Juhl:
> > strrchr() can return NULL if nothing is found. If this happens we'll
> > dereference a NULL pointer in
> > fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c::decode_and_add_ds().
> >
> > I tried to find some other code that guarantees that this can never
> > happen but I was unsuccessful. So, unless someone else can point to some
> > code that ensures this can never be a problem, I believe this patch is
> > needed.
> >
> > While I was changing this code I also noticed that all the dprintk()
> > statements, except one, start with "%s:". The one missing the ":" I added
> > it to.
>
>   Maybe another one also should be changed at decode_and_add_ds() at line 243:
>
>    243  printk("%s Decoded address and port %s\n", __func__, buf);
>
Missed that one. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Jesper Juhl 2011-01-17 18:41:50 +00:00 committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 0da2a4ac33
commit ad3d2eedf0
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c
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@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
/* ipv6 length plus port is legal */
if (rlen > INET6_ADDRSTRLEN + 8) {
dprintk("%s Invalid address, length %d\n", __func__,
dprintk("%s: Invalid address, length %d\n", __func__,
rlen);
goto out_err;
}
@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
/* replace the port dots with dashes for the in4_pton() delimiter*/
for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
char *res = strrchr(buf, '.');
if (!res) {
dprintk("%s: Failed finding expected dots in port\n",
__func__);
goto out_free;
}
*res = '-';
}
@ -240,7 +245,7 @@ decode_and_add_ds(__be32 **pp, struct inode *inode)
port = htons((tmp[0] << 8) | (tmp[1]));
ds = nfs4_pnfs_ds_add(inode, ip_addr, port);
dprintk("%s Decoded address and port %s\n", __func__, buf);
dprintk("%s: Decoded address and port %s\n", __func__, buf);
out_free:
kfree(buf);
out_err: