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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2012-02-06 13:07:04 +0400
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2012-04-18 06:14:28 +0400
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parent86812bb0de1a3758dc6c7aa01a763158a7c0638a (diff)
downloadlinux-09c79b60960bdd4b00916219402eabfa5e479c5a.tar.xz
mpi: Avoid using freed pointer in mpi_lshift_limbs()
At the start of the function we assign 'a->d' to 'ap'. Then we use the RESIZE_IF_NEEDED macro on 'a' - this may free 'a->d' and replace it with newly allocaetd storage. In that case, we'll be operating on freed memory further down in the function when we index into 'ap[]'. Since we don't actually need 'ap' until after the use of the RESIZE_IF_NEEDED macro we can just delay the assignment to it until after we've potentially resized, thus avoiding the issue. While I was there anyway I also changed the integer variable 'n' to be const. It might as well be since we only assign to it once and use it as a constant, and then the compiler will tell us if we ever assign to it in the future. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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