If cifs.upcall is passed an invalid argument then it will "goto out". The decoded_args struct however is uninitialized at that point so it will usually segfault when trying to free fields in it. Move the initialization up in the function. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> --- cifs.upcall.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/cifs.upcall.c b/cifs.upcall.c index 1ffcd7c..34b0638 100644 --- a/cifs.upcall.c +++ b/cifs.upcall.c @@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ int main(const int argc, char *const argv[]) const char *oid; hostbuf[0] = '\0'; + memset(&arg, 0, sizeof(arg)); openlog(prog, 0, LOG_DAEMON); @@ -731,8 +732,6 @@ int main(const int argc, char *const argv[]) goto out; } - memset(&arg, 0, sizeof(arg)); - have = decode_key_description(buf, &arg); SAFE_FREE(buf); if ((have & DKD_MUSTHAVE_SET) != DKD_MUSTHAVE_SET) { -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html