From ddb8c45ba15149ebd41d7586261c05f7ca37f9a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:33:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] aio: nullify aio->ring_pages after freeing it
After freeing ring_pages we leave it as is causing a dangling pointer. This
has already caused an issue so to help catching any issues in the future
NULL it out.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
---
fs/aio.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 63135331cec27..ad460d78d6c5d 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -196,8 +196,10 @@ static void aio_free_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
put_aio_ring_file(ctx);
- if (ctx->ring_pages && ctx->ring_pages != ctx->internal_pages)
+ if (ctx->ring_pages && ctx->ring_pages != ctx->internal_pages) {
kfree(ctx->ring_pages);
+ ctx->ring_pages = NULL;
+ }
}
static int aio_ring_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
--
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