[PATCH] fs/btrfs: Correct use after free

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Mar 28 2010 - 12:00:38 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

If the kfree is executed, the dereference of range afterwards will
represent a use after free. Added goto out, as done in the other nearby
error handling code.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,e;
identifier f;
iterator I;
statement S;
@@

*kfree(x);
... when != &x
when != x = e
when != I(x,...) S
*x->f
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 2845c6c..dacbb52 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -1375,6 +1375,7 @@ static int btrfs_ioctl_defrag(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
sizeof(*range))) {
ret = -EFAULT;
kfree(range);
+ goto out;
}
/* compression requires us to start the IO */
if ((range->flags & BTRFS_DEFRAG_RANGE_COMPRESS)) {
--
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