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From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: chuck.lever@oracle.com
Subject: [Patch] Possible dereference in fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:30:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159266659.5413.3.camel@alice> (raw)

hi,

the following commit introduced a possible NULL pointer dereference
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae5c79476f36512d1100e162606bb5691f2cce5a

we set cb->cb_client to NULL and pass it to rpc_shutdown_client() which dereferences it.
The easy fix below.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

--- linux-2.6.18-git5/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c.orig	2006-09-26 12:24:23.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-git5/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c	2006-09-26 12:24:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -450,7 +450,8 @@ out_rpciod:
 	rpciod_down();
 	cb->cb_client = NULL;
 out_clnt:
-	rpc_shutdown_client(cb->cb_client);
+	if (cb->cb_client)
+		rpc_shutdown_client(cb->cb_client);
 out_err:
 	dprintk("NFSD: warning: no callback path to client %.*s\n",
 		(int)clp->cl_name.len, clp->cl_name.data);



             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 10:30 Eric Sesterhenn [this message]
2006-09-26 12:58 ` [Patch] Possible dereference in fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c Chuck Lever
2006-09-26 13:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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