debugfs: allow bad parent pointers to be passed in
If something went wrong with creating a debugfs file/symlink/directory,
that value could be passed down into debugfs again as a parent dentry.
To make caller code simpler, just error out if this happens, and don't
crash the kernel.
Reported-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index 96400ab..61e72d4 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -254,6 +254,9 @@
pr_debug("debugfs: creating file '%s'\n",name);
+ if (IS_ERR(parent))
+ return parent;
+
error = simple_pin_fs(&debug_fs_type, &debugfs_mount,
&debugfs_mount_count);
if (error)