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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2011-04-05 16:23:47 -0700
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2011-04-12 00:39:05 +0000
commit7797069305d13252fd66cf722aa8f2cbeb3c95cd (patch)
tree85464ab3649def5954b04139c5854ae593db0703 /fs/cifs/file.c
parenta6360dd37e1a144ed11e6548371bade559a1e4df (diff)
cifs: check for private_data before trying to put it
cifs_close doesn't check that the filp->private_data is non-NULL before trying to put it. That can cause an oops in certain error conditions that can occur on open or lookup before the private_data is set. Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/file.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index c27d236738f..5ae061c4ca2 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -575,8 +575,10 @@ reopen_error_exit:
int cifs_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- cifsFileInfo_put(file->private_data);
- file->private_data = NULL;
+ if (file->private_data != NULL) {
+ cifsFileInfo_put(file->private_data);
+ file->private_data = NULL;
+ }
/* return code from the ->release op is always ignored */
return 0;