From 97f024b9171e74c4443bbe8a8dce31b917f97ac5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 16:29:56 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ovl: Fix dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated
and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned.
Fixes: 9b6faee07470 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()")
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
---
fs/overlayfs/export.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
index cb8ec1f65c03..73c9775215b3 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
@@ -227,9 +227,8 @@ static int ovl_d_to_fh(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
/* Encode an upper or lower file handle */
fh = ovl_encode_real_fh(enc_lower ? ovl_dentry_lower(dentry) :
ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), !enc_lower);
- err = PTR_ERR(fh);
if (IS_ERR(fh))
- goto fail;
+ return PTR_ERR(fh);
err = -EOVERFLOW;
if (fh->len > buflen)