Hi Colin-
> On Jan 28, 2021, at 9:49 AM, Colin King <colin.k...@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>
> The call to find_stateid_by_type is setting the return value in *stid
> yet the NULL check of the return is checking stid instead of *stid.
> Fix this by adding in the missing pointer * operator.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference before null check")
> Fixes: 6cdaa72d4dde ("nfsd: find_cpntf_state cleanup")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
Thanks for your patch. I've committed it to the for-next branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git
in preparation for the v5.12 merge window, with the following changes:
- ^statid^stateid
- Fixes: tag removed, since no stable backport is necessary
The commit you are fixing has not been merged upstream yet.
> ---
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> index f554e3480bb1..423fd6683f3a 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> @@ -5824,7 +5824,7 @@ static __be32 find_cpntf_state(struct nfsd_net *nn,
> stateid_t *st,
>
> *stid = find_stateid_by_type(found, &cps->cp_p_stateid,
> NFS4_DELEG_STID|NFS4_OPEN_STID|NFS4_LOCK_STID);
> - if (stid)
> + if (*stid)
> status = nfs_ok;
> else
> status = nfserr_bad_stateid;
> --
> 2.29.2
>
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