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NFS: Address memory leaks in the NFS client mount option parser
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David Howells noticed that repeating the same mount option twice during an
NFS mount request can result in orphaned memory in certain cases.

Only the client_address and mount_server.hostname strings are initialized
in the mount parsing loop, so those appear to be the only two pointers that
might be written over by repeating a mount option.  The strings in the
nfs_server section of the nfs_parsed_mount_data structure are set only once
after the options are parsed, thus these are not susceptible to being
overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Chuck Lever authored and Trond Myklebust committed Jan 30, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -1006,12 +1006,14 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
string = match_strdup(args);
if (string == NULL)
goto out_nomem;
kfree(mnt->client_address);
mnt->client_address = string;
break;
case Opt_mounthost:
string = match_strdup(args);
if (string == NULL)
goto out_nomem;
kfree(mnt->mount_server.hostname);
mnt->mount_server.hostname = string;
break;
case Opt_mountaddr:
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