On 06/06/2012 03:03 AM, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> From: "Yan, Zheng" <[email protected]>
>
> The bug can cause NULL pointer dereference in write_partial_msg_pages
Although this looks simple enough, I want to study it a little more
before committing it. I've been wanting to walk through this bit
of code anyway so I'll do that today.
One quick observation though: m->bio_iter really ought to be
initialized only within #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK (although I see it's
defined without it in the structure definition). At some point
I'll put together a cleanup patch to do that everywhere; feel free
to do that yourself if you are so inclined.
-Alex
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/ceph/messenger.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
> index 1a80907..785b953 100644
> --- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
> +++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
> @@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ static void prepare_write_message(struct ceph_connection
> *con)
> le32_to_cpu(con->out_msg->footer.front_crc),
> le32_to_cpu(con->out_msg->footer.middle_crc));
>
> + m->bio_iter = NULL;
> /* is there a data payload? */
> if (le32_to_cpu(m->hdr.data_len) > 0) {
> /* initialize page iterator */
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