Siddh Raman Pant 943211c874 watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer ...

NULL the dangling pipe reference while clearing watch_queue.

If not done, a reference to a freed pipe remains in the watch_queue,
as this function is called before freeing a pipe in free_pipe_info()
(see line 834 of fs/pipe.c).

The sole use of wqueue->defunct is for checking if the watch queue has
been cleared, but wqueue->pipe is also NULLed while clearing.

Thus, wqueue->defunct is superfluous, as wqueue->pipe can be checked
for NULL. Hence, the former can be removed.

Tested with keyutils testsuite.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1
Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <code@siddh.me>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230605143616.640517-1-code@siddh.me>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

2023-06-06 10:47:04 +02:00

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