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authorJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>2012-07-09 09:27:14 +0200
committerArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>2012-07-20 10:27:25 +0300
commit7074e5eb233343e4bad8c0a3f9e73167cf85a159 (patch)
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UBIFS: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable
If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head, and not a meaningful structure. Thus this value should not be used after the end of the iterator. Replace a field access from orphan by NULL in two places. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier c; expression E; iterator name list_for_each_entry; statement S; @@ list_for_each_entry(c,...) { ... when != break; when forall when strict } ... ( c = E | *c ) // </smpl> Artem: fortunately, this did not cause any issues because we iterate the orphan list using the elements count, so we never dereferenced the corrupted pointer. This is why I do not send this patch to -stable. But otherwise - well spotted! Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/orphan.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
index b02734db187c..cebf17ea0458 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int ubifs_orphan_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
*last = orphan;
last = &orphan->cnext;
}
- *last = orphan->cnext;
+ *last = NULL;
c->cmt_orphans = c->new_orphans;
c->new_orphans = 0;
dbg_cmt("%d orphans to commit", c->cmt_orphans);
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static int consolidate(struct ubifs_info *c)
last = &orphan->cnext;
cnt += 1;
}
- *last = orphan->cnext;
+ *last = NULL;
ubifs_assert(cnt == c->tot_orphans - c->new_orphans);
c->cmt_orphans = cnt;
c->ohead_lnum = c->orph_first;