From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, microcode, AMD: use after free in free_cache()
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:00:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912110022.GA6470@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120905123042.GB6128@elgon.mountain>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:30:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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.
Ok, just ran it and it looks good.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
@hpa, this one should go ontop of tip/x86/microcode.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 12:30 [patch] x86, microcode, AMD: use after free in free_cache() Dan Carpenter
2012-09-05 13:20 ` 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 [this message]
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