From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1U8hre-0003mj-HG for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:55:55 +0000 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) References: <1361496375-30994-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:55:27 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1361496375-30994-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> (Sasha Levin's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:26:15 -0500") Message-ID: <87vc9l5cz4.fsf@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: prevent double free on image allocation failure List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Sasha Levin Cc: Andrew Morton , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sasha Levin writes: > If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to initialize an allocated kimage, it will free > the image but would still set 'rimage', as a result kexec_load will try > to free it again. > > This would explode as part of the freeing process is accessing internal > members which point to uninitialized memory. Agreed. I don't think that failure path has ever actually been exercised. The code is wrong, and it is worth fixing. Andrew I do you think you could queue this up? I don't have a handy tree. Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > --- > kernel/kexec.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c > index 2348bd6..855bfbb 100644 > --- a/kernel/kexec.c > +++ b/kernel/kexec.c > @@ -242,8 +242,6 @@ static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, > if (result) > goto out; > > - *rimage = image; > - > /* > * Find a location for the control code buffer, and add it > * the vector of segments so that it's pages will also be _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec