From: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:53:08 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: cifs: missing null check for newinode pointer
X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/unified/20230118.172025~6960^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0917310b984c1ac24da2be0ebe992539b9ba94ed;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git

cifs: missing null check for newinode pointer

in cifs_do_create we check if newinode is valid before referencing it
but are missing the check in one place in fs/cifs/dir.c

Addresses-Coverity: 1357292 ("Dereference after null check")
Acked-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index 9123330..79402ca 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -384,10 +384,11 @@ cifs_create_set_dentry:
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 
-	if (S_ISDIR(newinode->i_mode)) {
-		rc = -EISDIR;
-		goto out_err;
-	}
+	if (newinode)
+		if (S_ISDIR(newinode->i_mode)) {
+			rc = -EISDIR;
+			goto out_err;
+		}
 
 	d_drop(direntry);
 	d_add(direntry, newinode);