ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
authorDing Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Mon, 9 Sep 2019 08:29:56 +0000 (16:29 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 5 Oct 2019 11:10:08 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
commite7265adc0a3c87b5fe9ddbbc55293647ac7338b6
tree9e697249270a08e7d24e8b077c7ff7d00d840292
parent2e96c93325950db4ca9d8eb73cf93b20e5500938
ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

commit 97f024b9171e74c4443bbe8a8dce31b917f97ac5 upstream.

if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated
and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned.

Fixes: 9b6faee07470 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()")
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/overlayfs/export.c