On (06/10/15 16:59), Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > zpool_destroy_pool() does not tolerate a NULL zpool pointer
> > argument and performs a NULL-pointer dereference. Although
> > there is only one zpool_destroy_pool() user (as of 4.1),
> > still update it to be coherent with the corresponding
> > destroy() functions of the remainig pool-allocators (slab,
> > mempool, etc.), which now allow NULL pool-pointers.
> >
> > For consistency, tweak zpool_destroy_pool() and NULL-check the
> > pointer there.
> >
> > Proposed by Andrew Morton.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
> > Reported-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> > LKML-reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583
>
> Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstr...@ieee.org>
Thanks.
Shall we ask Joe to add zpool_destroy_pool() to the
"$func(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required" list?
-ss
> > ---
> > mm/zpool.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/zpool.c b/mm/zpool.c
> > index bacdab6..2f59b90 100644
> > --- a/mm/zpool.c
> > +++ b/mm/zpool.c
> > @@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(char *type, char *name,
> > gfp_t gfp,
> > */
> > void zpool_destroy_pool(struct zpool *zpool)
> > {
> > + if (unlikely(!zpool))
> > + return;
> > +
> > pr_info("destroying pool type %s\n", zpool->type);
> >
> > spin_lock(&pools_lock);
> > --
> > 2.4.3.368.g7974889
> >
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