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fs, xattr: fix bug when removing a name not in xattr list 

Commit 38f3865744 ("xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs") moved
some code from tmpfs but introduced a subtle bug along the way.

If the name passed to simple_xattr_remove() does not exist in the list of
xattrs, then it is possible to call kfree(new_xattr) when new_xattr is
actually initialized to itself on the stack via uninitialized_var().

This causes a BUG() since the memory was not allocated via the slab
allocator and was not bypassed through to the page allocator because it
was too large.

Initialize the local variable to NULL so the kfree() never takes place.

Change-Id: I0f090df631e871657fb31914dce57c13e81e25c2
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2012-10-17 20:41:15 -07:00 committed by surblazer
parent dbb94d545d
commit 67cc7b4e9a
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@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static int __simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name,
const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
struct simple_xattr *xattr;
struct simple_xattr *uninitialized_var(new_xattr);
struct simple_xattr *new_xattr = NULL;
int err = 0;
/* value == NULL means remove */