commit: a4e08d001f2e50bb8b3c4eebadcf08e5535f02ee
From: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:02:10 -0700
Subject: ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in __ocfs2_change_file_space()

As ocfs2_fallocate() will invoke __ocfs2_change_file_space() with a NULL
as the first parameter (file), it may trigger a NULL pointer dereferrence
due to a missing check.

Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006012

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Bret Towe <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Bret Towe <[email protected]>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 98513c8..7602783 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1950,7 +1950,7 @@ static int __ocfs2_change_file_space(struct file *file, 
struct inode *inode,
        if (ret < 0)
                mlog_errno(ret);
 
-       if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
+       if (file && (file->f_flags & O_SYNC))
                handle->h_sync = 1;
 
        ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
-- 
1.7.3.4
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