Re: [PATCH] md: fix the problem that the pointer may be double free

From: Song Liu
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 02:24:04 EST


On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:37 PM zhangyue <zhangyue1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> int driver/md/md.c, if the function autorun_array() is called,
> the problem of double free may occur.
>
> in function autorun_array(), when the function do_md_run() returns an
> error, the function do_md_stop() will be called.
>
> The function do_md_run() called function md_run(), but in function
> md_run(), the pointer mddev->private may be freed.
>
> The function do_md_stop() called the function __md_stop(), but in
> function __md_stop(), the pointer mddev->private also will be freed
> without judging null.
>
> At this time, the pointer mddev->private will be double free, so it
> needs to be judged null or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhangyue <zhangyue1@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to md-fixes. Thanks!

Song