From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 12:37:53 +0000 (+0300) Subject: NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client() X-Git-Tag: v4.4.273~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fab8bfdfb4aac9e4e8363666333adfdf21e89106;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client() [ Upstream commit 09226e8303beeec10f2ff844d2e46d1371dc58e0 ] None of the callers are expecting NULL returns from nfs_get_client() so this code will lead to an Oops. It's better to return an error pointer. I expect that this is dead code so hopefully no one is affected. Fixes: 31434f496abb ("nfs: check hostname in nfs_get_client") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c index d6d5d2a48e838..ba2cd0bd3894f 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ nfs_get_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init, if (cl_init->hostname == NULL) { WARN_ON(1); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } dprintk("--> nfs_get_client(%s,v%u)\n",