linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Set pointer to NULL after ext2fs

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Message-ID: <20140221015641.GB31047@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:56:41 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Set pointer to NULL after ext2fs_free

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> ext2fs_free() does not set the ext2_filsys pointer to null so the caller
> is responsible to setting it himself if it is needed.
> 
> This patch fixes some places where caller did not set ext2_filsys
> pointer to NULL after ext2fs_free() which might result in use after
> free. Fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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