Commit cc4d21d9 authored by Riyan Dhiman's avatar Riyan Dhiman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition



[ Upstream commit 26e197b7 ]

The blk_add_partition() function initially used a single if-condition
(IS_ERR(part)) to check for errors when adding a partition. This was
modified to handle the specific case of -ENXIO separately, allowing the
function to proceed without logging the error in this case. However,
this change unintentionally left a path where md_autodetect_dev()
could be called without confirming that part is a valid pointer.

This commit separates the error handling logic by splitting the
initial if-condition, improving code readability and handling specific
error scenarios explicitly. The function now distinguishes the general
error case from -ENXIO without altering the existing behavior of
md_autodetect_dev() calls.

Fixes: b7205307 (block: allow partitions on host aware zone devices)
Signed-off-by: default avatarRiyan Dhiman <riyandhiman14@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240911132954.5874-1-riyandhiman14@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent a894cf7e
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