[bug report] staging: erofs: tidy up decompression frontend

[Gao Xiang]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your report.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:03:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Gao Xiang,
> 
> This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
> 
> The patch 97e86a858bc3: "staging: erofs: tidy up decompression
> frontend" from Jul 31, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
> 
>     fs/erofs/zdata.c:670 z_erofs_do_read_page()
>     error: we previously assumed 'clt->cl' could be null (see line 596)
> 
> fs/erofs/zdata.c
>    595			/* didn't get a valid collection previously (very rare) */
>    596			if (!clt->cl)
>                             ^^^^^^^^
> New NULL check.
> 
>    597				goto restart_now;
>    598			goto hitted;
>    599		}
>    600	
>    601		/* go ahead the next map_blocks */
>    602		debugln("%s: [out-of-range] pos %llu", __func__, offset + cur);
>    603	
>    604		if (z_erofs_collector_end(clt))
>    605			fe->backmost = false;
>    606	
>    607		map->m_la = offset + cur;
>    608		map->m_llen = 0;
>    609		err = z_erofs_map_blocks_iter(inode, map, 0);
>    610		if (unlikely(err))
>    611			goto err_out;
>    612	
>    613	restart_now:
>    614		if (unlikely(!(map->m_flags & EROFS_MAP_MAPPED)))
>    615			goto hitted;
>    616	
>    617		err = z_erofs_collector_begin(clt, inode, map);

At a glance, clt->cl will be all initialized in all successful paths
in z_erofs_collector_begin, or it all fall back into err_out...
I have no idea what is wrong here...

Some detailed path from Smatch for NIL dereferences?

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>    618		if (unlikely(err))
>    619			goto err_out;
>    620	
>    621		/* preload all compressed pages (maybe downgrade role if necessary) */
>    622		if (should_alloc_managed_pages(fe, sbi->cache_strategy, map->m_la))
>    623			cache_strategy = DELAYEDALLOC;
>    624		else
>    625			cache_strategy = DONTALLOC;
>    626	
>    627		preload_compressed_pages(clt, MNGD_MAPPING(sbi),
>    628					 cache_strategy, pagepool);
>    629	
>    630		tight &= (clt->mode >= COLLECT_PRIMARY_HOOKED);
>    631	hitted:
>    632		cur = end - min_t(unsigned int, offset + end - map->m_la, end);
>    633		if (unlikely(!(map->m_flags & EROFS_MAP_MAPPED))) {
>    634			zero_user_segment(page, cur, end);
>    635			goto next_part;
>    636		}
>    637	
>    638		/* let's derive page type */
>    639		page_type = cur ? Z_EROFS_VLE_PAGE_TYPE_HEAD :
>    640			(!spiltted ? Z_EROFS_PAGE_TYPE_EXCLUSIVE :
>    641				(tight ? Z_EROFS_PAGE_TYPE_EXCLUSIVE :
>    642					Z_EROFS_VLE_PAGE_TYPE_TAIL_SHARED));
>    643	
>    644		if (cur)
>    645			tight &= (clt->mode >= COLLECT_PRIMARY_FOLLOWED);
>    646	
>    647	retry:
>    648		err = z_erofs_attach_page(clt, page, page_type);
>    649		/* should allocate an additional staging page for pagevec */
>    650		if (err == -EAGAIN) {
>    651			struct page *const newpage =
>    652				__stagingpage_alloc(pagepool, GFP_NOFS);
>    653	
>    654			err = z_erofs_attach_page(clt, newpage,
>    655						  Z_EROFS_PAGE_TYPE_EXCLUSIVE);
>    656			if (likely(!err))
>    657				goto retry;
>    658		}
>    659	
>    660		if (unlikely(err))
>    661			goto err_out;
>    662	
>    663		index = page->index - (map->m_la >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>    664	
>    665		z_erofs_onlinepage_fixup(page, index, true);
>    666	
>    667		/* bump up the number of spiltted parts of a page */
>    668		++spiltted;
>    669		/* also update nr_pages */
>    670		clt->cl->nr_pages = max_t(pgoff_t, clt->cl->nr_pages, index + 1);
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Unchecked dereferences.
> 
>    671	next_part:
>    672		/* can be used for verification */
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter