ovl: fix uninitialized pointer read in ovl_lookup_real_one()

One error path can result in release_dentry_name_snapshot() being called
before "name" was initialized by take_dentry_name_snapshot().

Fix by moving the release_dentry_name_snapshot() to immediately after the
only use.

Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi 2021-08-06 10:03:12 +02:00
parent 9b91b6b019
commit 580c610429
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_real_one(struct dentry *connected,
*/
take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, real);
this = lookup_one_len(name.name.name, connected, name.name.len);
release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
err = PTR_ERR(this);
if (IS_ERR(this)) {
goto fail;
@ -406,7 +407,6 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_real_one(struct dentry *connected,
}
out:
release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
dput(parent);
inode_unlock(dir);
return this;