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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2014-02-14 12:05:49 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-26 17:19:06 -0700
commitd4654552f7290647d0767201b2afd1a19de94177 (patch)
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fs: NULL dereference in posix_acl_to_xattr()
commit 47ba9734403770a4c5e685b01f0a72b835dd4fff upstream. This patch moves the dereference of "buffer" after the check for NULL. The only place which passes a NULL parameter is gfs2_set_acl(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/posix_acl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/posix_acl.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 11c54fd51e16..9e363e41dacc 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const struct posix_acl *acl,
void *buffer, size_t size)
{
posix_acl_xattr_header *ext_acl = (posix_acl_xattr_header *)buffer;
- posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
+ posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry;
int real_size, n;
real_size = posix_acl_xattr_size(acl->a_count);
@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const struct posix_acl *acl,
return real_size;
if (real_size > size)
return -ERANGE;
-
+
+ ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(POSIX_ACL_XATTR_VERSION);
for (n=0; n < acl->a_count; n++, ext_entry++) {