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authorJoern Engel <joern@logfs.org>2012-06-07 23:21:14 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-06-07 23:43:55 +0200
commit39caa0916ef27cf1da5026eb708a2b8413156f75 (patch)
tree8cabf096e8a485ac623883ad57064ca1d18f253b
parentbtree: fix tree corruption in btree_get_prev() (diff)
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btree: catch NULL value before it does harm
Storing NULL values in the btree is illegal and can lead to memory corruption and possible other fun as well. Catch it on insert, instead of waiting for the inevitable. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/btree.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/btree.c b/lib/btree.c
index 5cf9e74ec3f3..f9a484676cb6 100644
--- a/lib/btree.c
+++ b/lib/btree.c
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ retry:
int btree_insert(struct btree_head *head, struct btree_geo *geo,
unsigned long *key, void *val, gfp_t gfp)
{
+ BUG_ON(!val);
return btree_insert_level(head, geo, key, val, 1, gfp);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(btree_insert);