[ 043/123] NFS: avoid NULL dereference in nfs_destroy_server

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 09 2013 - 16:29:47 EST


3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

commit f259613a1e4b44a0cf85a5dafd931be96ee7c9e5 upstream.

In rare circumstances, nfs_clone_server() of a v2 or v3 server can get
an error between setting server->destory (to nfs_destroy_server), and
calling nfs_start_lockd (which will set server->nlm_host).

If this happens, nfs_clone_server will call nfs_free_server which
will call nfs_destroy_server and thence nlmclnt_done(NULL). This
causes the NULL to be dereferenced.

So add a guard to only call nlmclnt_done() if ->nlm_host is not NULL.

The other guards there are irrelevant as nlm_host can only be non-NULL
if one of these flags are set - so remove those tests. (Thanks to Trond
for this suggestion).

This is suitable for any stable kernel since 2.6.25.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/nfs/client.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -615,8 +615,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_create_rpc_client)
*/
static void nfs_destroy_server(struct nfs_server *server)
{
- if (!(server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_LOCAL_FLOCK) ||
- !(server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_LOCAL_FCNTL))
+ if (server->nlm_host)
nlmclnt_done(server->nlm_host);
}



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