From 66691c6e2f18d2aa4b22ffb624b9bdc97e9979e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roi Martin Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:08:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free in add_inode_ref() The add_inode_ref() function does not initialize the "name" struct when it is declared. If any of the following calls to "read_one_inode() returns NULL, dir = read_one_inode(root, parent_objectid); if (!dir) { ret = -ENOENT; goto out; } inode = read_one_inode(root, inode_objectid); if (!inode) { ret = -EIO; goto out; } then "name.name" would be freed on "out" before being initialized. out: ... kfree(name.name); This issue was reported by Coverity with CID 1526744. Fixes: e43eec81c516 ("btrfs: use struct qstr instead of name and namelen pairs") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+ Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana Signed-off-by: Roi Martin Reviewed-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c index e2ed2a791f8f..35c452bab1ca 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c @@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ static noinline int add_inode_ref(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct inode *inode = NULL; unsigned long ref_ptr; unsigned long ref_end; - struct fscrypt_str name; + struct fscrypt_str name = { 0 }; int ret; int log_ref_ver = 0; u64 parent_objectid; -- 2.50.1