Re: [PATCH] cifs: fix double-free of "string" in cifs_parse_mount_options

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I will merge this ASAP

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dan reported the following regression in commit d387a5c5:
>
>     + fs/cifs/connect.c:1903 cifs_parse_mount_options() error: double free of 'string'
>
> That patch has some of the new option parsing code free "string" without
> setting the variable to NULL afterward. Since "string" is automatically
> freed in an error condition, fix the code to just rely on that instead
> of freeing it explicitly.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c | 9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 7635b5d..17c3643 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -1624,14 +1624,11 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
>                 case Opt_unc:
>                         string = vol->UNC;
>                         vol->UNC = match_strdup(args);
> -                       if (vol->UNC == NULL) {
> -                               kfree(string);
> +                       if (vol->UNC == NULL)
>                                 goto out_nomem;
> -                       }
>
>                         convert_delimiter(vol->UNC, '\\');
>                         if (vol->UNC[0] != '\\' || vol->UNC[1] != '\\') {
> -                               kfree(string);
>                                 printk(KERN_ERR "CIFS: UNC Path does not "
>                                                 "begin with // or \\\\\n");
>                                 goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
> @@ -1687,10 +1684,8 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
>
>                         string = vol->prepath;
>                         vol->prepath = match_strdup(args);
> -                       if (vol->prepath == NULL) {
> -                               kfree(string);
> +                       if (vol->prepath == NULL)
>                                 goto out_nomem;
> -                       }
>                         /* Compare old prefixpath= option to new one */
>                         if (!string || strcmp(string, vol->prepath))
>                                 printk(KERN_WARNING "CIFS: the value of the "
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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