From: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>

The VFS routine that calls ->get_link blindly copies whatever's returned
into the user's buffer.  If we return a NULL pointer, the vfs will
crash on the null pointer.  Therefore, return -EFSCORRUPTED instead of
blowing up the kernel.

Reported-by: wen.xu@gatech.edu
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
index 0ef5ad7fb851..26007a9db49d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c

@@ -471,8 +471,16 @@ xfs_vn_get_link_inline(
 	struct inode		*inode,
 	struct delayed_call	*done)
 {
+	char			*ptr;
+
 	ASSERT(XFS_I(inode)->i_df.if_flags & XFS_IFINLINE);
-	return XFS_I(inode)->i_df.if_u1.if_data;
+
+	/*
+	 * The VFS crashes on a NULL pointer, so return -EFSCORRUPTED if
+	 * if_data is junk.
+	 */
+	ptr = XFS_I(inode)->i_df.if_u1.if_data;
+	return ptr ? ptr : ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
 }
 
 STATIC int