Ocfs2 devel - Dec 2009 - [PATCHv2 01/12]posix_acl: Add the check items

Add the acl validation check-items
to fix the null pointer error and PTR_ERR error.

Thanks for Matthew Wilcox's sguuestion.

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Signed-off-by: Liuwenyi <qingshenlwy at gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason at oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker at oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
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Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
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Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh at panasas.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>
Cc: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang at oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm at suse.com>
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Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
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diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 39df95a..d4bacb9 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ posix_acl_valid(const struct posix_acl *acl)
unsigned int id = 0; /* keep gcc happy */
int needs_mask = 0;

+ if (!acl)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (IS_ERR(acl))
+ return PTR_ERR(acl);
+
FOREACH_ACL_ENTRY(pa, acl, pe) {
if (pa->e_perm & ~(ACL_READ|ACL_WRITE|ACL_EXECUTE))
return -EINVAL;

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Best Regards,
Liuwenyi