Re: [PATCH v2] Btrfs: fix null pointer dereference on compressed write path error

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:37:25AM +0100, fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> At inode.c:compress_file_range(), under the "free_pages_out" label, we can
> end up dereferencing the "pages" pointer when it has a NULL value. This
> case happens when "start" has a value of 0 and we fail to allocate memory
> for the "pages" pointer. When that happens we jump to the "cont" label and
> then enter the "if (start == 0)" branch where we immediately call the
> cow_file_range_inline() function. If that function returns 0 (success
> creating an inline extent) or an error (like -ENOMEM for example) we jump
> to the "free_pages_out" label and then access "pages[i]" leading to a NULL
> pointer dereference, since "nr_pages" has a value greater than zero at
> that point.
> 
> Fix this by setting "nr_pages" to 0 when we fail to allocate memory for
> the "pages" pointer.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201119
> Fixes: 771ed689d2cd ("Btrfs: Optimize compressed writeback and reads")
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

Added to misc-next, thanks.



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