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Commit e2ac55b6 authored by Chengyu Song's avatar Chengyu Song Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ocfs2: incorrect check for debugfs returns



debugfs_create_dir and debugfs_create_file may return -ENODEV when debugfs
is not configured, so the return value should be checked against
ERROR_VALUE as well, otherwise the later dereference of the dentry pointer
would crash the kernel.

This patch tries to solve this problem by fixing certain checks. However,
I have that found other call sites are protected by #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS.
In current implementation, if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is defined, then the above
two functions will never return any ERROR_VALUE. So another possibility
to fix this is to surround all the buggy checks/functions with the same
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS. But I'm not sure if this would break any functionality,
as only OCFS2_FS_STATS declares dependency on DEBUG_FS.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChengyu Song <csong84@gatech.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 762515a8
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