staging: lustre: fix error deref in ll_splice_alias().
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Mon, 7 May 2018 00:54:48 +0000 (10:54 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 May 2018 11:09:21 +0000 (13:09 +0200)
commit1d6e65bedf5878c8dd5b089d3f034b619bbb8a77
tree10e634988d246c5971090252dc29d7d2b56279cd
parent9604c7ac2005e214cb08500c957a79c58bea5c83
staging: lustre: fix error deref in ll_splice_alias().

d_splice_alias() can return an ERR_PTR().
If it does while debugging is enabled, the following
CDEBUG() will dereference that error and crash.

So add appropriate checking, and provide a separate
debug message for the error case.

Reported-and-tested-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Fixes: e9d4f0b9f559 ("staging: lustre: llite: use d_splice_alias for directories.")
Reviewed-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c