kernfs: fix potential null pointer dereference

Get root safely after kn is ensureed to be not null.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rocking@whu.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190708151611.13242-1-rocking@whu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index a387534c9577..ddf537923a0a 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_get_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
  */
 void kernfs_put_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 {
-        struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn);
         int v;
 
         if (unlikely(!kn))
@@ -442,7 +441,7 @@ void kernfs_put_active(struct kernfs_node *kn)
         if (likely(v != KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS))
                 return;
 
-        wake_up_all(&root->deactivate_waitq);
+        wake_up_all(&kernfs_root(kn)->deactivate_waitq);
 }
 
 /**