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fs/ubifs/orphan.c: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable

Message ID 1341818834-2101-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr
State Accepted
Commit 7074e5eb233343e4bad8c0a3f9e73167cf85a159
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Commit Message

Julia Lawall July 9, 2012, 7:27 a.m. UTC 
From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
the end of the iterator.  Replace a field access from orphan by NULL in two
places.

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

// <smpl>
@@
identifier c;
expression E;
iterator name list_for_each_entry;
statement S;
@@

list_for_each_entry(c,...) { ... when != break;
                                 when forall
                                 when strict
}
...
(
c = E
|
*c
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

---
 fs/ubifs/orphan.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Artem Bityutskiy July 18, 2012, 3:58 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:27 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> 
> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
> and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
> the end of the iterator.  Replace a field access from orphan by NULL in two
> places.

Pushed to linux-ubifs.git, thanks!
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
index b02734d..cebf17e 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@  int ubifs_orphan_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
 		*last = orphan;
 		last = &orphan->cnext;
 	}
-	*last = orphan->cnext;
+	*last = NULL;
 	c->cmt_orphans = c->new_orphans;
 	c->new_orphans = 0;
 	dbg_cmt("%d orphans to commit", c->cmt_orphans);
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@  static int consolidate(struct ubifs_info *c)
 			last = &orphan->cnext;
 			cnt += 1;
 		}
-		*last = orphan->cnext;
+		*last = NULL;
 		ubifs_assert(cnt == c->tot_orphans - c->new_orphans);
 		c->cmt_orphans = cnt;
 		c->ohead_lnum = c->orph_first;