From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 801a76050bcf8d4e500eb8d048ff6265f37a61c8 upstream. Once we'd freed m->buf, m->count should become zero - we have no valid contents reachable via m->buf. Reported-by: Charley (Hao Chuan) Chu <charley.chu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/seq_file.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index a290157265ef..092951efaf43 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset) Eoverflow: m->op->stop(m, p); kfree(m->buf); + m->count = 0; m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); return !m->buf ? -ENOMEM : -EAGAIN; } @@ -232,10 +233,10 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos) goto Fill; m->op->stop(m, p); kfree(m->buf); + m->count = 0; m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!m->buf) goto Enomem; - m->count = 0; m->version = 0; pos = m->index; p = m->op->start(m, &pos); -- 2.3.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html