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authorHao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>2024-05-13 13:33:38 +0800
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2024-05-14 11:13:45 -0400
commitd4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4 (patch)
tree5e1870189a87134d79bad978cb24ac3a2360624b
parente60b613df8b6253def41215402f72986fee3fc8d (diff)
downloadlinux-trace-trace/for-next.tar.gz
eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()trace-v6.10trace/for-next
In function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer that may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform some operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL. Hence,When ei->is_freed is set,return NULL directly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240513053338.63017-1-hao.ge@linux.dev Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8186fff7ab64 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership") Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/tracefs/event_inode.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index a878cea70f4c9..0256afdd4acfb 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -345,10 +345,9 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_find_events(struct dentry *dentry)
* If the ei is being freed, the ownership of the children
* doesn't matter.
*/
- if (ei->is_freed) {
- ei = NULL;
- break;
- }
+ if (ei->is_freed)
+ return NULL;
+
// Walk upwards until you find the events inode
} while (!ei->is_events);