[PATCH 4.9 14/83] 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9stat_free

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-11-19T16:52:50Z

From: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>

[ Upstream commit 62e3941776fea8678bb8120607039410b1b61a65 ]

p9stat_free is more of a cleanup function than a 'free' function as it
only frees the content of the struct; there are chances of use-after-free
if it is improperly used (e.g. p9stat_free called twice as it used to be
possible to)

Clearing dangling pointers makes the function idempotent and safer to use.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535410108-20650-2-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>
Reported-by: syzbot+d4252148d198410b864f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/9p/protocol.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/net/9p/protocol.c
+++ b/net/9p/protocol.c
@@ -46,10 +46,15 @@ p9pdu_writef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int p
void p9stat_free(struct p9_wstat *stbuf)
{
kfree(stbuf->name);
+ stbuf->name = NULL;
kfree(stbuf->uid);
+ stbuf->uid = NULL;
kfree(stbuf->gid);
+ stbuf->gid = NULL;
kfree(stbuf->muid);
+ stbuf->muid = NULL;
kfree(stbuf->extension);
+ stbuf->extension = NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(p9stat_free);