9p: clear dangling pointers in p9stat_free

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/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]> Reported-by: [email protected]
kawasaki · Aug 29, 2018 · 62e3941 · 62e3941
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diff --git 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);