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From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 35/42] NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client()
Date:   Mon, 14 Jun 2021 12:27:26 +0200
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 09226e8303beeec10f2ff844d2e46d1371dc58e0 ]

None of the callers are expecting NULL returns from nfs_get_client() so
this code will lead to an Oops.  It's better to return an error
pointer.  I expect that this is dead code so hopefully no one is
affected.

Fixes: 31434f496abb ("nfs: check hostname in nfs_get_client")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index 28d8a57a9908..d322ed5cbc1c 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ nfs_get_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init,
 
 	if (cl_init->hostname == NULL) {
 		WARN_ON(1);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
 	dprintk("--> nfs_get_client(%s,v%u)\n",
-- 
2.30.2