Re: [PATCH v2] ceph: fix possible null-pointer dereference in ceph_mdsmap_decode()

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 08:14 -0700, Tuo Li wrote:
> kcalloc() is called to allocate memory for m->m_info, and if it fails,
> ceph_mdsmap_destroy() behind the label out_err will be called:
>   ceph_mdsmap_destroy(m);
> 
> In ceph_mdsmap_destroy(), m->m_info is dereferenced through:
>   kfree(m->m_info[i].export_targets);
> 
> To fix this possible null-pointer dereference, check m->m_info before the 
> for loop to free m->m_info[i].export_targets.
> 
> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Put an "if (m->m_info)" around the for loop in ceph_mdsmap_destroy()
> instead of freeing m and returning -ENOMEM in ceph_mdsmap_decode().
>   Thank Jeff Layton for helpful advice.
> ---
>  fs/ceph/mdsmap.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/mdsmap.c b/fs/ceph/mdsmap.c
> index abd9af7727ad..26d6fa049b44 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/mdsmap.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/mdsmap.c
> @@ -393,9 +393,11 @@ struct ceph_mdsmap *ceph_mdsmap_decode(void **p, void *end, bool msgr2)
>  void ceph_mdsmap_destroy(struct ceph_mdsmap *m)
>  {
>  	int i;
> -
> -	for (i = 0; i < m->possible_max_rank; i++)
> -		kfree(m->m_info[i].export_targets);
> +	

This patch added some whitespace damage above. I went ahead and fixed it
up before merging.

> +	if (m->m_info) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < m->possible_max_rank; i++)
> +			kfree(m->m_info[i].export_targets);
> +	}
>  	kfree(m->m_info);

I also moved the above kfree into the if statement since we have to
check it anyway (no need to do it twice).

>  	kfree(m->m_data_pg_pools);
>  	kfree(m);

Merged! Thanks for the patch.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>