From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dominique Martinet , syzbot+d4252148d198410b864f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com, Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 14/83] 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9stat_free Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:28:40 +0100 Message-Id: <20181119162614.789978746@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181119162612.046511542@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181119162612.046511542@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dominique Martinet [ 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 Reported-by: syzbot+d4252148d198410b864f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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);