The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025041739-swivel-handball-0839@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From b4885bd5935bb26f0a414ad55679a372e53f9b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandra Diupina adiupina@astralinux.ru Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:28:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] cifs: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dbg call
cifs_server_dbg() implies server to be non-NULL so move call under condition to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: e79b0332ae06 ("cifs: ignore cached share root handle closing errors") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandra Diupina adiupina@astralinux.ru Signed-off-by: Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c index f3c4b70b77b9..cddf273c14ae 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c @@ -816,11 +816,12 @@ smb2_handle_cancelled_close(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, __u64 persistent_fid, WARN_ONCE(tcon->tc_count < 0, "tcon refcount is negative"); spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
- if (tcon->ses) + if (tcon->ses) { server = tcon->ses->server; - - cifs_server_dbg(FYI, "tid=0x%x: tcon is closing, skipping async close retry of fid %llu %llu\n", - tcon->tid, persistent_fid, volatile_fid); + cifs_server_dbg(FYI, + "tid=0x%x: tcon is closing, skipping async close retry of fid %llu %llu\n", + tcon->tid, persistent_fid, volatile_fid); + }
return 0; }