[PATCH] fix NULL dereference in inotify_ignore
Don't reassign to watch. If idr_find() returns NULL, then
put_inotify_watch() will choke.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c
index 7d57253..732ec4b 100644
--- a/fs/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/inotify.c
@@ -894,8 +894,7 @@
mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
/* make sure that we did not race */
- watch = idr_find(&dev->idr, wd);
- if (likely(watch))
+ if (likely(idr_find(&dev->idr, wd) == watch))
remove_watch(watch, dev);
mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);