Commit 2c693b1d authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()

commit bb3d132a upstream.

The ext4_get_group_desc() function returns NULL on error, and
ext4_free_inodes_count() function dereferences it without checking.
There is a check on the next line, but it's too late.
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 978041f2
......@@ -488,10 +488,12 @@ static int find_group_orlov(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *parent,
for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
grp = (parent_group + i) % ngroups;
desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, grp, NULL);
grp_free = ext4_free_inodes_count(sb, desc);
if (desc && grp_free && grp_free >= avefreei) {
*group = grp;
return 0;
if (desc) {
grp_free = ext4_free_inodes_count(sb, desc);
if (grp_free && grp_free >= avefreei) {
*group = grp;
return 0;
}
}
}
......
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