d_splice_alias() can return an ERR_PTR(). If it does while debugging is enabled, the following CDEBUG() will dereference that error and crash.
So add appropriate checking, and provide a separate debug message for the error case. Reported-by: James Simmons <jsimm...@infradead.org> Fixes: e9d4f0b9f559 ("staging: lustre: llite: use d_splice_alias for directories.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.com> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c index 6c9ec462eb41..24a6873d86a2 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c @@ -442,11 +442,15 @@ struct dentry *ll_splice_alias(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *de) } else { struct dentry *new = d_splice_alias(inode, de); + if (IS_ERR(new)) + CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "splice inode %p as %pd gives error %lu\n", + inode, de, PTR_ERR(new)); if (new) de = new; } - CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "Add dentry %p inode %p refc %d flags %#x\n", - de, d_inode(de), d_count(de), de->d_flags); + if (!IS_ERR(de)) + CDEBUG(D_DENTRY, "Add dentry %p inode %p refc %d flags %#x\n", + de, d_inode(de), d_count(de), de->d_flags); return de; }