[PATCH 3.18 61/90] 9p: clear dangling pointers in p9stat_free

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3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@xxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 62e3941776fea8678bb8120607039410b1b61a65 ]

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/1535410108-20650-2-git-send-email-asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+d4252148d198410b864f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/9p/protocol.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/net/9p/protocol.c
+++ b/net/9p/protocol.c
@@ -45,10 +45,15 @@ p9pdu_writef(struct p9_fcall *pdu, int p
 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);
 





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