Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] hfs, hfsplus: Fix NULL pointer dereference in hfs_find_init()
From: Peilin Ye <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-12 17:23:42
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From: Peilin Ye <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-12 17:23:42
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, lkml
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:59:04AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
Yeah, the patch doesn't work at all. I looked at one call tree and it
is:
hfs_mdb_get() tries to allocate HFS_SB(sb)->ext_tree.
HFS_SB(sb)->ext_tree = hfs_btree_open(sb, HFS_EXT_CNID, hfs_ext_keycmp);
^^^^^^^^
hfs_btree_open() calls page = read_mapping_page(mapping, 0, NULL);
read_mapping_page() calls mapping->a_ops->readpage() which leads to
hfs_readpage() which leads to hfs_ext_read_extent() which calls
res = hfs_find_init(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->ext_tree, &fd);
^^^^^^^^Thank you for pointing this out! I will try to come up with a better way to fix it. Peilin Ye
So we need ->ext_tree to be non-NULL before we can set ->ext_tree to be non-NULL... :/ I wonder how long this has been broken and if we should just delete the AFS file system. regards, dan carpenter
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