[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] CVE-2019-13105: ext4: fix double-free in ext4_cache_read

Paul Emge paulemge at forallsecure.com
Mon Jul 8 23:37:04 UTC 2019


ext_cache_read doesn't null cache->buf, after freeing, which results
in a later function double-freeing it. This patch fixes
ext_cache_read to call ext_cache_fini instead of free.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge at forallsecure.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4fs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c b/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
index 26db677a1f..85dc122f30 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4fs.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ int ext_cache_read(struct ext_block_cache *cache, lbaint_t block, int size)
 	if (!cache->buf)
 		return 0;
 	if (!ext4fs_devread(block, 0, size, cache->buf)) {
-		free(cache->buf);
+		ext_cache_fini(cache);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	cache->block = block;
-- 
2.20.1



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