[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] multipath: don't check timestamps without a path

Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins at redhat.com
Tue Jun 5 22:40:21 UTC 2018


If a path was blacklisted, pathvec could exist but have no path in it.
print_cmd_valid wasn't checking this before calling
find_multipaths_check_timeout(). This was causing it to dereference a
NULL pointer in these cases.

Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
---
 multipath/main.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c
index c69e996..3f0a6aa 100644
--- a/multipath/main.c
+++ b/multipath/main.c
@@ -482,10 +482,8 @@ static int print_cmd_valid(int k, const vector pathvec,
 			pp, pp->find_multipaths_timeout, &until);
 		if (wait != FIND_MULTIPATHS_WAITING)
 			k = 1;
-	} else if (pathvec != NULL) {
-		pp = VECTOR_SLOT(pathvec, 0);
+	} else if (pathvec != NULL && (pp = VECTOR_SLOT(pathvec, 0)))
 		wait = find_multipaths_check_timeout(pp, 0, &until);
-	}
 	if (wait == FIND_MULTIPATHS_WAITING)
 		printf("FIND_MULTIPATHS_WAIT_UNTIL=\"%ld.%06ld\"\n",
 			       until.tv_sec, until.tv_nsec/1000);
-- 
2.7.4




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