[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/1] ubifs: avoid possible NULL dereference
Ladislav Michl
ladis at linux-mips.org
Tue Nov 21 20:23:51 UTC 2017
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 07:45:03PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> If 'file' cannot be allocated due to an out of memory
> situation, do not dereference it.
>
> When debugging this patch also avoids a misleading message
> "cannot find next direntry, error %d" in case of an out of
> memory situation. It is sufficent to write
> "%s: Error, no memory for malloc!\n" in this case.
>
> Reported-by: Alex Sadovsky <nable.maininbox at googlemail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> ---
> fs/ubifs/ubifs.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> index 4465523d5f..313dee0579 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> @@ -403,8 +403,7 @@ static int ubifs_finddir(struct super_block *sb, char *dirname,
> dir = kzalloc(sizeof(struct inode), 0);
> if (!file || !dentry || !dir) {
> printf("%s: Error, no memory for malloc!\n", __func__);
> - err = -ENOMEM;
> - goto out;
> + goto out_nomem;
> }
>
> dir->i_sb = sb;
> @@ -424,7 +423,6 @@ static int ubifs_finddir(struct super_block *sb, char *dirname,
> err = PTR_ERR(dent);
> goto out;
> }
> -
> file->f_pos = key_hash_flash(c, &dent->key);
> file->private_data = dent;
>
This hunk should be probably droped.
> @@ -463,6 +461,7 @@ out:
>
> out_free:
> kfree(file->private_data);
Now question is why is file->private_data ever assigned as it seems nothing
works with it.
> +out_nomem:
> free(file);
> free(dentry);
> free(dir);
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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