From: Peng Wang <rocking@whu.edu.cn>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:16:11 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: kernfs: fix potential null pointer dereference
X-Git-Tag: v5.4-rc1~137^2~49
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fd60da46da76948b8cc561ae8cc902209686253;p=linux.git

kernfs: fix potential null pointer dereference

Get root safely after kn is ensureed to be not null.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@whu.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190708151611.13242-1-rocking@whu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index a387534c9577..ddf537923a0a 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_get_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
  */
 void kernfs_put_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 {
-	struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn);
 	int v;
 
 	if (unlikely(!kn))
@@ -442,7 +441,7 @@ void kernfs_put_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 	if (likely(v != KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS))
 		return;
 
-	wake_up_all(&root->deactivate_waitq);
+	wake_up_all(&kernfs_root(kn)->deactivate_waitq);
 }
 
 /**