[Ocfs2-devel] [patch v2] ocfs2: fix recent memory corruption bug

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Aug 1 07:02:59 PDT 2013


The pointer math in 6fdf3af1d2 "ocfs2: fix null pointer dereference in
ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id()" isn't correct so it will zero out the wrong
memory.  In fact, the memset isn't needed because the initializer will
set all these values to zero.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
---
v2: remove the memset

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
index c91d986..b1748cd 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
@@ -2157,9 +2157,6 @@ int ocfs2_empty_dir(struct inode *inode)
 		.ctx.pos = 0,
 	};
 
-	memset(&priv + sizeof(struct dir_context), 0,
-	       sizeof(priv) - sizeof(struct dir_context));
-
 	if (ocfs2_dir_indexed(inode)) {
 		ret = ocfs2_empty_dir_dx(inode, &priv);
 		if (ret)



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