In ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry(), there is an if statement on line 2136 to
check whether loc->xl_entry is NULL:

    if (loc->xl_entry)

When loc->xl_entry is NULL, it is used on line 2158:

    ocfs2_xa_add_entry(loc, name_hash);
        loc->xl_entry->xe_name_hash = cpu_to_le32(name_hash);
        loc->xl_entry->xe_name_offset = cpu_to_le16(loc->xl_size);

and line 2164:

    ocfs2_xa_add_namevalue(loc, xi);
        loc->xl_entry->xe_value_size = cpu_to_le64(xi->xi_value_len);
        loc->xl_entry->xe_name_len = xi->xi_name_len;

Thus, possible null-pointer dereferences may occur.

To fix these bugs, if loc-xl_entry is NULL, ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry()
abnormally returns with -EINVAL.

These bugs are found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by us.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused ocfs2_xa_add_entry()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726101447.9153-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NJia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NJoseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>