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authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>2013-11-19 01:20:43 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-18 19:07:53 -0800
commit801a76050bcf8d4e500eb8d048ff6265f37a61c8 (patch)
tree261258d2a4f61f07f238c18ea1087fca6eea9947
parent27b5c3f3cc9c5ce0702db1cca718c827e8b689e9 (diff)
seq_file: always clear m->count when we free m->buf
Once we'd freed m->buf, m->count should become zero - we have no valid contents reachable via m->buf. Reported-by: Charley (Hao Chuan) Chu <charley.chu@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/seq_file.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 1cd2388ca5bd..1d641bb108d2 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
Eoverflow:
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
+ m->count = 0;
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
return !m->buf ? -ENOMEM : -EAGAIN;
}
@@ -232,10 +233,10 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
goto Fill;
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
+ m->count = 0;
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!m->buf)
goto Enomem;
- m->count = 0;
m->version = 0;
pos = m->index;
p = m->op->start(m, &pos);