Hello,
> The coverity checker noticed that we may pass a NULL super_block to
> do_quotactl() that dereferences it.
> Dereferencing NULL pointers is bad medicine, better check and fail
> gracefully.
Umm, when do you think we can dereference NULL pointer to a super_block?
check_quotactl_valid() allows sb==NULL only in the case of Q_SYNC command.
And that is handled in do_quotactl() correctly even if sb==NULL...
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SuSE CR Labs
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