Re: [PATCH] fs: btrfs: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in insert_inline_extent()

[Qu Wenruo]

On 2019/7/24 äå10:11, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> In insert_inline_extent(), there is an if statement on line 181 to check
> whether compressed_pages is NULL:
>     if (compressed_size && compressed_pages)
> 
> When compressed_pages is NULL, compressed_pages is used on line 215:
>     cpage = compressed_pages[i];
> 
> Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may occur.
> 
> To fix this possible bug, compressed_pages is checked on line 214.

This can only be hit with compressed_size > 0 and compressed_pages != NULL.

It would be better to have an extra ASSERT() to warn developers about
the impossible case.

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> index 1af069a9a0c7..19182272fbd8 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int insert_inline_extent(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
>  	if (compress_type != BTRFS_COMPRESS_NONE) {
>  		struct page *cpage;
>  		int i = 0;
> -		while (compressed_size > 0) {
> +		while (compressed_size > 0 && compressed_pages) {
>  			cpage = compressed_pages[i];
>  			cur_size = min_t(unsigned long, compressed_size,
>  				       PAGE_SIZE);
>

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