NFS4: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference in decode_and_add_ds().

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Mi Jinlong wrote:

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>
> Jesper Juhl:
> > strrchr() can return NULL if nothing is found. If this happens we'll
> > dereference a NULL pointer in
> > fs/nfs/nfs4filelayoutdev.c::decode_and_add_ds().
> >
> > I tried to find some other code that guarantees that this can never
> > happen but I was unsuccessful. So, unless someone else can point to some
> > code that ensures this can never be a problem, I believe this patch is
> > needed.
> >
> > While I was changing this code I also noticed that all the dprintk()
> > statements, except one, start with "%s:". The one missing the ":" I added
> > it to.
>
>   Maybe another one also should be changed at decode_and_add_ds() at line 243:
>
>    243  printk("%s Decoded address and port %s\n", __func__, buf);
>
Missed that one. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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