From 957df4535d06a8e009101239937ca5e50a6218c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:33:12 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] possible memory corruption in cifs_parse_mount_options()

error path after mountdata check frees uninitialized mountdata_copy

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
---
 fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 84c730701c09..fb31c2c1bb17 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
 			 struct smb_vol *vol)
 {
 	char *value, *data, *end;
-	char *mountdata_copy, *options;
+	char *mountdata_copy = NULL, *options;
 	unsigned int  temp_len, i, j;
 	char separator[2];
 	short int override_uid = -1;
-- 
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