Prevent oopsing in posix_acl_valid()
authorDaniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Tue, 3 May 2011 16:44:13 +0000 (16:44 +0000)
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Sat, 14 May 2011 20:10:18 +0000 (16:10 -0400)
If posix_acl_from_xattr() returns an error code, a negative address is
dereferenced causing an oops; fix by checking for error code first.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
fs/btrfs/acl.c

index a892bc27f13a8c41e195ee73726a40df137f331d..827be9a6ca33ae6bcd00445478eb72b51241b1c8 100644 (file)
@@ -178,12 +178,13 @@ static int btrfs_xattr_acl_set(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 
        if (value) {
                acl = posix_acl_from_xattr(value, size);
+               if (IS_ERR(acl))
+                       return PTR_ERR(acl);
+
                if (acl) {
                        ret = posix_acl_valid(acl);
                        if (ret)
                                goto out;
-               } else if (IS_ERR(acl)) {
-                       return PTR_ERR(acl);
                }
        }