From: Jeff Layton Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:38:30 +0000 (-0500) Subject: nfsd: zero out pointers after putting nfsd_files on COPY setup error X-Git-Tag: v6.1.16~248 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c085476ad346d3579ce5c21dc8b0423e2b781ce8;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git nfsd: zero out pointers after putting nfsd_files on COPY setup error [ Upstream commit 1f0001d43d0c0ac2a19a34a914f6595ad97cbc1d ] At first, I thought this might be a source of nfsd_file overputs, but the current callers seem to avoid an extra put when nfsd4_verify_copy returns an error. Still, it's "bad form" to leave the pointers filled out when we don't have a reference to them anymore, and that might lead to bugs later. Zero them out as a defensive coding measure. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c index 53113976e6424..a90e792a94d77 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c @@ -1227,8 +1227,10 @@ out: return status; out_put_dst: nfsd_file_put(*dst); + *dst = NULL; out_put_src: nfsd_file_put(*src); + *src = NULL; goto out; }