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[PATCH 2/2] 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9stat_free

From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Date: 2018-08-27 22:48:46
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Subsystem: 9p file system, the rest · Maintainers: Eric Van Hensbergen, Latchesar Ionkov, Dominique Martinet, Linus Torvalds

From: Dominique Martinet <redacted>

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.

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <redacted>
Reported-by: syzbot+d4252148d198410b864f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <redacted>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
---
 net/9p/protocol.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/9p/protocol.c b/net/9p/protocol.c
index 4a1e1dd30b52..ee32bbf12675 100644
--- a/net/9p/protocol.c
+++ b/net/9p/protocol.c
@@ -46,10 +46,15 @@ p9pdu_writef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int proto_version, const char *fmt, ...);
 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);
 
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