[PATCH] cifs: Use kzfree() to free password

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 16:58:35 UTC 2018


Good catch

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:15 AM Dan Carpenter via samba-technical
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> We should zero out the password before we free it.
>
> Fixes: 3d6cacbb5310 ("cifs: Add DFS cache routines")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> index f74567788396..006333146a6d 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c
> @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ static int dup_vol(struct smb_vol *vol, struct smb_vol *new)
>  err_free_unc:
>         kfree(new->UNC);
>  err_free_password:
> -       kfree(new->password);
> +       kzfree(new->password);
>  err_free_username:
>         kfree(new->username);
>         kfree(new);
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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