From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] x86, microcode, AMD: use after free in free_cache()
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:30:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905123042.GB6128@elgon.mountain> (raw)
list_for_each_entry_reverse() dereferences the iterator, but we already
freed it. I don't see a reason that this has to be done in reverse
order so I've changed it to use list_for_each_entry_safe().
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
This is only needed on linux-next. Sorry, it turns out that I don't
have any AMD systems right now, so I have not tested this.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index 5511216..7720ff5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -150,9 +150,9 @@ static void update_cache(struct ucode_patch *new_patch)
static void free_cache(void)
{
- struct ucode_patch *p;
+ struct ucode_patch *p, *tmp;
- list_for_each_entry_reverse(p, &pcache, plist) {
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(p, tmp, &pcache, plist) {
__list_del(p->plist.prev, p->plist.next);
kfree(p->data);
kfree(p);
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 12:30 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-09-05 13:20 ` [patch] x86, microcode, AMD: use after free in free_cache() Borislav Petkov
2012-09-05 23:42 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-09-06 12:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-06 12:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-09-06 13:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-06 14:04 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-09-06 16:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-12 11:00 ` Borislav Petkov
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