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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-04-04 17:08:42 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-05-28 10:11:47 -0700
commitfe3b81b446d4ecb954f1b9dd191164a78fd278ad (patch)
tree924a9493dfc2acc2af3792c6716f407f0813d6b3 /fs
parent08332893e37af6ae779367e78e444f8f9571511d (diff)
downloadlinux-fe3b81b446d4ecb954f1b9dd191164a78fd278ad.tar.bz2
NFS: Use ERR_CAST() to avoid cross-structure cast
When the call to nfs_devname() fails, the error path attempts to retain the error via the mnt variable, but this requires a cast across very different types (char * to struct vfsmount *), which the upcoming structure layout randomization plugin flags as being potentially dangerous in the face of randomization. This is a false positive, but what this code actually wants to do is retain the error value, so this patch explicitly sets it, instead of using what seems to be an unexpected cast. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/namespace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/namespace.c b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
index 1a224a33a6c2..e5686be67be8 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ struct vfsmount *nfs_do_submount(struct dentry *dentry, struct nfs_fh *fh,
devname = nfs_devname(dentry, page, PAGE_SIZE);
if (IS_ERR(devname))
- mnt = (struct vfsmount *)devname;
+ mnt = ERR_CAST(devname);
else
mnt = nfs_do_clone_mount(NFS_SB(dentry->d_sb), devname, &mountdata);