From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: Double free of initramfs
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:41:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322224117.GH31706@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050321182146.32a20ebf.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It seems all 25 linker scripts in the current bk tree are suffering from
> > this. Which mean with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD enabled first free_initrd_mem
> > may be called to free the initram disk and just a little later
> > free_initmem will try to free the entire range again, so either the
> > linker scripts would need fixing or free_initrd_mem has become obsolete.
> >
>
> Hard call. I'd be 51% inclined to change the linker scripts so that the
> freeing of the initram disk happens explicitly, rather than having it
> magically hidden inside the main initmem segment.
>
> Any objections from anyone?
>
> (cc'ed Adrian, who might be interested in raising a patch ;))
I've cooked that already. Let me check if I can dig it up from here - I'm
supposed to be on vacation ;-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-16 18:49 Double free of initramfs Ralf Baechle
2005-03-22 2:21 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 22:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-22 22:41 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-03-22 22:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-03-22 23:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
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2005-03-22 23:07 Luck, Tony
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