[PATCH 4.19 039/243] dlm: fix possible call to kfree() for non-initialized pointer

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-11T15:54:43Z

From: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>

[ Upstream commit 58a923adf4d9aca8bf7205985c9c8fc531c65d72 ]

Technically dlm_config_nodes() could return error and keep nodes
uninitialized. After that on the fail path of we'll call kfree()
for that uninitialized value.

The patch is simple - we should just initialize nodes with NULL.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/dlm/member.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/member.c b/fs/dlm/member.c
index cad6d85911a80..0bc43b35d2c53 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/member.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/member.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ int dlm_ls_stop(struct dlm_ls *ls)
int dlm_ls_start(struct dlm_ls *ls)
{
struct dlm_recover *rv, *rv_old;
- struct dlm_config_node *nodes;
+ struct dlm_config_node *nodes = NULL;
int error, count;

rv = kzalloc(sizeof(*rv), GFP_NOFS);
--
2.20.1