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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-05-11 20:47:15 -0400 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-12 11:06:11 +1000 |
| commit | d93e4c940f51ae06b59c14523c4d55947f9597d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2dfe72da55eab4bd12e059f7d9de6f9c37eedbbf /security | |
| parent | 1a62e958fa4aaeeb752311b4f5e16b2a86737b23 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d93e4c940f51ae06b59c14523c4d55947f9597d6.tar.bz2 | |
securityfs: securityfs_remove should handle IS_ERR pointers
Both of the securityfs users (TPM and IMA) can call securityfs_remove and pass
an IS_ERR(dentry) in their failure paths. This patch handles those rather
than panicing when it tries to start deferencing some negative memory.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/inode.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c index f3b91bfbe4cb..f7496c6a022b 100644 --- a/security/inode.c +++ b/security/inode.c @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry) { struct dentry *parent; - if (!dentry) + if (!dentry || IS_ERR(dentry)) return; parent = dentry->d_parent; |