commit 7acae6183cf37c48b8da48bbbdb78820fb3913f3 upstream. The request will be inserted into the ci->i_unsafe_dirops before assigning the req->r_session, so it's possible that we will hit NULL pointer dereference bug here. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/55327 Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Tested-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>