kernfs: handle null pointers while printing node name and path

Null kernfs nodes could be found at cgroups during construction.
It seems safer to handle these null pointers right in kernfs in
the same way as printf prints "(null)" for null pointer string.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index cf4c636ff4da..439b946c4808 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ static bool kernfs_lockdep(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 
 static int kernfs_name_locked(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 {
+	if (!kn)
+		return strlcpy(buf, "(null)", buflen);
+
 	return strlcpy(buf, kn->parent ? kn->name : "/", buflen);
 }
 
@@ -110,6 +113,8 @@ static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_common_ancestor(struct kernfs_node *a,
  * kn_to:   /n1/n2/n3         [depth=3]
  * result:  /../..
  *
+ * [3] when @kn_to is NULL result will be "(null)"
+ *
  * Returns the length of the full path.  If the full length is equal to or
  * greater than @buflen, @buf contains the truncated path with the trailing
  * '\0'.  On error, -errno is returned.
@@ -123,6 +128,9 @@ static int kernfs_path_from_node_locked(struct kernfs_node *kn_to,
 	size_t depth_from, depth_to, len = 0;
 	int i, j;
 
+	if (!kn_to)
+		return strlcpy(buf, "(null)", buflen);
+
 	if (!kn_from)
 		kn_from = kernfs_root(kn_to)->kn;
 
@@ -166,6 +174,8 @@ static int kernfs_path_from_node_locked(struct kernfs_node *kn_to,
  * similar to strlcpy().  It returns the length of @kn's name and if @buf
  * isn't long enough, it's filled upto @buflen-1 and nul terminated.
  *
+ * Fills buffer with "(null)" if @kn is NULL.
+ *
  * This function can be called from any context.
  */
 int kernfs_name(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)