Thanks to Matthew Dodd for this bug report:

A file label issue while running SELinux in MLS mode provoked the
following bug, which is a result of use before init on a 'struct list_head'.

In nfsd4_list_rec_dir() if the call to dentry_open() fails the 'goto
out' skips INIT_LIST_HEAD() which results in the normally improbable
case where list_entry() returns NULL.

Trace follows.

NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
SELinux:  Context unconfined_t:object_r:var_lib_nfs_t:s0 is not valid
(left unmapped).
type=1400 audit(1227298063.609:282): avc:  denied  { read } for
pid=1890 comm="rpc.nfsd" name="v4recovery" dev=dm-0 ino=148726
scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s15:c0.c1023 tclass=dir
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
IP: [<c050894e>] list_del+0x6/0x60
*pde = 0d9ce067 *pte = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs autofs4
sunrpc ipv6 dm_multipath scsi_dh ppdev parport_pc sg parport floppy
ata_piix pata_acpi ata_generic libata pcnet32 i2c_piix4 mii pcspkr
i2c_core dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod BusLogic sd_mod
scsi_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last
unloaded: microcode]

Pid: 1890, comm: rpc.nfsd Not tainted (2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686 #1)
EIP: 0060:[<c050894e>] EFLAGS: 00010217 CPU: 0
EIP is at list_del+0x6/0x60
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: cd99e480
ESI: cf9caed8 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cf9caebc ESP: cf9caeb8
  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process rpc.nfsd (pid: 1890, ti=cf9ca000 task=cf4de580 task.ti=cf9ca000)
Stack: 00000000 cf9caef0 d0a9f139 c0496d04 d0a9f217 fffffff3 00000000
00000000
        00000000 00000000 cf32b220 00000000 00000008 00000801 cf9caefc
d0a9f193
        00000000 cf9caf08 d0a9b6ea 00000000 cf9caf1c d0a874f2 cf9c3004
00000008
Call Trace:
  [<d0a9f139>] ? nfsd4_list_rec_dir+0xf3/0x13a [nfsd]
  [<c0496d04>] ? do_path_lookup+0x12d/0x175
  [<d0a9f217>] ? load_recdir+0x0/0x26 [nfsd]
  [<d0a9f193>] ? nfsd4_recdir_load+0x13/0x34 [nfsd]
  [<d0a9b6ea>] ? nfs4_state_start+0x2a/0xc5 [nfsd]
  [<d0a874f2>] ? nfsd_svc+0x51/0xff [nfsd]
  [<d0a87f2d>] ? write_svc+0x0/0x1e [nfsd]
  [<d0a87f48>] ? write_svc+0x1b/0x1e [nfsd]
  [<d0a87854>] ? nfsctl_transaction_write+0x3a/0x61 [nfsd]
  [<c04b6a4e>] ? sys_nfsservctl+0x116/0x154
  [<c04975c1>] ? putname+0x24/0x2f
  [<c04975c1>] ? putname+0x24/0x2f
  [<c048d49f>] ? do_sys_open+0xad/0xb7
  [<c048d337>] ? filp_close+0x50/0x5a
  [<c048d4eb>] ? sys_open+0x1e/0x26
  [<c0403cca>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
  [<c064007b>] ? init_cyrix+0x185/0x490
  =======================
Code: 75 e1 8b 53 08 8d 4b 04 8d 46 04 e8 75 00 00 00 8b 53 10 8d 4b 0c
8d 46 0c e8 67 00 00 00 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 90 90 55 89 e5 53 89 c3 <8b> 40
04 8b 00 39 d8 74 16 50 53 68 3e d6 6f c0 6a 30 68 78 d6
EIP: [<c050894e>] list_del+0x6/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:cf9caeb8
---[ end trace a89c4ad091c4ad53 ]---

Cc: Matthew N. Dodd <Matthew.Dodd@spart.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>