From 091e881d0e55496d8887b61446ae1c598b0995b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:54:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] inotify: check for NULL inode in inotify_d_instantiate The spufs file system creates files in a directory before instantiating the directory itself, which causes a NULL pointer access in inotify_d_instantiate since c32ccd87bfd1414b0aabfcd8dbc7539ad23bcbaa. I'd like to keep this behavior since it means that the user will not have access to files in the directory before I know that I succeed in creating everything in it. This patch adds a simple check for the inode to keep that working. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- fs/inotify.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 367c487c014b..1f50302849c5 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void inotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode) WARN_ON(entry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED); spin_lock(&entry->d_lock); parent = entry->d_parent; - if (inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode)) + if (parent->d_inode && inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode)) entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED; spin_unlock(&entry->d_lock); } -- GitLab