fs: NULL dereference in posix_acl_to_xattr()
This patch moves the dereference of "buffer" after the check for NULL.
The only place which passes a NULL parameter is gfs2_set_acl().
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 38bae5a..202b84f 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@
void *buffer, size_t size)
{
posix_acl_xattr_header *ext_acl = (posix_acl_xattr_header *)buffer;
- posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
+ posix_acl_xattr_entry *ext_entry;
int real_size, n;
real_size = posix_acl_xattr_size(acl->a_count);
@@ -725,7 +725,8 @@
return real_size;
if (real_size > size)
return -ERANGE;
-
+
+ ext_entry = ext_acl->a_entries;
ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(POSIX_ACL_XATTR_VERSION);
for (n=0; n < acl->a_count; n++, ext_entry++) {
