On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:43:27PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> If there is no s_export_op present in a target superblock
> we might have nil dereference.

Is that NULL dereference possible with current code, or is it a check
you're adding to account for a new caller that you're about to add?

I believe it's the latter, but this would be a good thing to make clear
in the changelog.

--b.

> Fix it with eplicit test
> if s_export_op is provided.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com>
> CC: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
> CC: Matthew Helsley <matt.hels...@gmail.com>
> CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfie...@fieldses.org>
> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  fs/exportfs/expfs.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *de
>                */
>               parent = p->d_inode;
>       }
> -     if (nop->encode_fh)
> +     if (nop && nop->encode_fh)
>               error = nop->encode_fh(inode, fid->raw, max_len, parent);
>       else
>               error = export_encode_fh(inode, fid, max_len, parent);
> 
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