summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/fs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-01-19 12:34:32 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-01-28 15:20:24 -0800
commit951e8ab57d5a08fd083997e5bf674c3d0e81abff (patch)
tree01573339b1a1ceb2c2357b890706aa25fe85242f /fs
parent4d3b891bdf8a0cf1ef02938aea9fc353ce2a4b68 (diff)
ecryptfs: use after free
commit ece550f51ba175c14ec3ec047815927d7386ea1f upstream. The "full_alg_name" variable is used on a couple error paths, so we shouldn't free it until the end. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index 06db79d05c12..8c9ec6efb041 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ ecryptfs_process_key_cipher(struct crypto_blkcipher **key_tfm,
char *cipher_name, size_t *key_size)
{
char dummy_key[ECRYPTFS_MAX_KEY_BYTES];
- char *full_alg_name;
+ char *full_alg_name = NULL;
int rc;
*key_tfm = NULL;
@@ -1748,7 +1748,6 @@ ecryptfs_process_key_cipher(struct crypto_blkcipher **key_tfm,
if (rc)
goto out;
*key_tfm = crypto_alloc_blkcipher(full_alg_name, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC);
- kfree(full_alg_name);
if (IS_ERR(*key_tfm)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(*key_tfm);
printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to allocate crypto cipher with name "
@@ -1770,6 +1769,7 @@ ecryptfs_process_key_cipher(struct crypto_blkcipher **key_tfm,
goto out;
}
out:
+ kfree(full_alg_name);
return rc;
}