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authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2013-11-19 22:33:03 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-08 15:29:17 (GMT)
commitefbac2ca2f13d43a9aab37b84a3cca4d73b09c7c (patch)
treee7e017ecd4c7c1d5f1185071a66670a4347410a1 /fs/aio.c
parentf50db974cb75e31d98b176c3c9ea92e57aa97a1b (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-efbac2ca2f13d43a9aab37b84a3cca4d73b09c7c.tar.xz
aio: nullify aio->ring_pages after freeing it
commit ddb8c45ba15149ebd41d7586261c05f7ca37f9a1 upstream. After freeing ring_pages we leave it as is causing a dangling pointer. This has already caused an issue so to help catching any issues in the future NULL it out. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/aio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index f4103b3..08159ed 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -251,8 +251,10 @@ static void aio_free_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
put_aio_ring_file(ctx);
- if (ctx->ring_pages && ctx->ring_pages != ctx->internal_pages)
+ if (ctx->ring_pages && ctx->ring_pages != ctx->internal_pages) {
kfree(ctx->ring_pages);
+ ctx->ring_pages = NULL;
+ }
}
static int aio_ring_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)