[PATCH] inotify: check for NULL inode in inotify_d_instantiate

The spufs file system creates files in a directory before instantiating the
directory itself, which causes a NULL pointer access in
inotify_d_instantiate since c32ccd87bfd1414b0aabfcd8dbc7539ad23bcbaa.

I'd like to keep this behavior since it means that the user will not have
access to files in the directory before I know that I succeed in creating
everything in it.  This patch adds a simple check for the inode to keep
that working.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c
index 367c487c014b6f62db3c04811ad56e3bec4cc0df..1f50302849c53ce8c674fd71416777713de9009b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/inotify.c
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ void inotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode)
        WARN_ON(entry->d_flags & DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED);
        spin_lock(&entry->d_lock);
        parent = entry->d_parent;
-       if (inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode))
+       if (parent->d_inode && inotify_inode_watched(parent->d_inode))
                entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
        spin_unlock(&entry->d_lock);
 }