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authorBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>2011-07-12 10:27:55 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-08 10:35:43 -0700
commit9c31c4ab18adde177c4f2ed9474b38bdeee187fd (patch)
tree77732d50e560033fcb340711deaac3c44f63ce51 /net
parentcf139882872adb1fffbb0b009244f94eb2c0d7c5 (diff)
SUNRPC: Fix use of static variable in rpcb_getport_async
commit ec0dd267bf7d08cb30e321e45a75fd40edd7e528 upstream. Because struct rpcbind_args *map was declared static, if two threads entered this method at the same time, the values assigned to map could be sent two two differen tasks. This could cause all sorts of problems, include use-after-free and double-free of memory. Fix this by removing the static declaration so that the map pointer is on the stack. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
index 3e3772d8eb9..4ac622dd22f 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *task)
u32 bind_version;
struct rpc_xprt *xprt;
struct rpc_clnt *rpcb_clnt;
- static struct rpcbind_args *map;
+ struct rpcbind_args *map;
struct rpc_task *child;
struct sockaddr_storage addr;
struct sockaddr *sap = (struct sockaddr *)&addr;