linux-kernel - [PATCH] CIFS: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cifs_construct

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Date:	Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:35:19 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
cc:	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
Subject: [PATCH] CIFS: Fix NULL pointer dereference in
 cifs_construct_tcon()

If the call to kcalloc() fails and returns NULL we'll dereference a
NULL 'vol_info' after we jump to the 'out:' label.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 fs/cifs/connect.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 986709a..bd67b7c 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -3859,7 +3859,7 @@ cifs_construct_tcon(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, uid_t fsuid)
 	vol_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*vol_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (vol_info == NULL) {
 		tcon = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-		goto out;
+		goto out2;
 	}
 
 	vol_info->local_nls = cifs_sb->local_nls;
@@ -3901,7 +3901,7 @@ out:
 	kfree(vol_info->username);
 	kfree(vol_info->password);
 	kfree(vol_info);
-
+out2:
 	return tcon;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9



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