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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2016-05-09 13:28:49 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-05-25 17:33:47 -0400
commitaaf431b4f92152d46ab54079692633aa422262b1 (patch)
tree459a45a5dbd76d3698535f76e6be0f8981354070 /fs
parente0d46f5c6e0ba3a79e64cd60e62b7b7191ed93f3 (diff)
xattr: Fail with -EINVAL for NULL attribute names
Commit 98e9cb57 improved the xattr name checks in xattr_resolve_name but didn't update the NULL attribute name check appropriately, so NULL attribute names lead to NULL pointer dereferences. Turn that into -EINVAL results instead. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> fs/xattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index b11945e15fde..4231488f2122 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ xattr_resolve_name(const struct xattr_handler **handlers, const char **name)
const struct xattr_handler *handler;
if (!*name)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) {
const char *n;