From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: ilw@linux.intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: fix freeing uninitialized pointer
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:38:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130416133828.GA20024@redhat.com> (raw)
If on iwl_dump_nic_event_log() error occurs before that function
initialize buf, we process uninitiated pointer in
iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read() and can hit "BUG at mm/slub.c:3409"
Resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951241
Reported-by: ian.odette@eprize.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
---
Patch is only compile tested, but I'm sure it fixes the problem.
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/debugfs.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/debugfs.c
index 7b8178b..cb6dd58 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/debugfs.c
@@ -2237,15 +2237,15 @@ static ssize_t iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read(struct file *file,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = file->private_data;
- char *buf;
- int pos = 0;
- ssize_t ret = -ENOMEM;
+ char *buf = NULL;
+ ssize_t ret;
- ret = pos = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true);
- if (buf) {
- ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, pos);
- kfree(buf);
- }
+ ret = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto err;
+ ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, ret);
+err:
+ kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
--
1.7.11.7
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-16 13:38 Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2013-04-16 13:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: remove redundant argument from iwl_dump_nic_event_log Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-04-17 6:23 ` [PATCH 3/2] iwlwifi: remove unneeded goto from iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read Stanislaw Gruszka
2013-04-17 7:10 ` Julian Calaby
2013-04-17 7:12 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-16 18:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: fix freeing uninitialized pointer Jonas Gorski
2013-04-17 6:17 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
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