UBIFS: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable
If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head, and not a meaningful structure. Thus this value should not be used after the end of the iterator. Replace a field access from orphan by NULL in two places. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier c; expression E; iterator name list_for_each_entry; statement S; @@ list_for_each_entry(c,...) { ... when != break; when forall when strict } ... ( c = E | *c ) // </smpl> Artem: fortunately, this did not cause any issues because we iterate the orphan list using the elements count, so we never dereferenced the corrupted pointer. This is why I do not send this patch to -stable. But otherwise - well spotted! Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
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