[PATCH -next] ubifs: ubifs_gc_start_commit: Fix error check for lp pointer

Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1 at huawei.com
Tue Jun 22 18:21:46 PDT 2021


Treating the NULL pointer returned from ubifs_fast_find_frdi_idx() as
ENOMEM will make ubifs_gc_start_commit() fails, which could make ubifs
read-only. Actually a returned NULL pointer is the termination
condition in while-loop in ubifs_gc_start_commit().

Fixes: c770cd5190ba ("ubifs: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check")
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/gc.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/gc.c b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
index 7cc22d7317ea..b1f276599b04 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
@@ -895,10 +895,6 @@ int ubifs_gc_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
 	/* Record index freeable LEBs for unmapping after commit */
 	while (1) {
 		lp = ubifs_fast_find_frdi_idx(c);
-		if (!lp) {
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto out;
-		}
 		if (!lp)
 			break;
 		idx_gc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ubifs_gced_idx_leb), GFP_NOFS);
-- 
2.31.1




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