From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in copy_thread
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:33:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030309163339.GA2346@averell> (raw)
Discovered on x86-64 and now ported.
copy_thread could leak memory if you had a io bitmap and passed wrong
arguments to the new clone flags.
-Andi
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c 2003-02-26 12:55:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.5.63-work/arch/i386/kernel/process.c 2003-03-04 22:28:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@
{
struct pt_regs * childregs;
struct task_struct *tsk;
+ int err;
childregs = ((struct pt_regs *) (THREAD_SIZE + (unsigned long) p->thread_info)) - 1;
struct_cpy(childregs, regs);
@@ -316,20 +317,27 @@
struct user_desc info;
int idx;
+ err = -EFAULT;
if (copy_from_user(&info, (void *)childregs->esi, sizeof(info)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ err = -EINVAL;
if (LDT_empty(&info))
- return -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
idx = info.entry_number;
if (idx < GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN || idx > GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX)
- return -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
desc = p->thread.tls_array + idx - GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN;
desc->a = LDT_entry_a(&info);
desc->b = LDT_entry_b(&info);
}
- return 0;
+
+ err = 0;
+ out:
+ if (p->thread.ts_io_bitmap)
+ kfree(p->thread.ts_io_bitmap);
+ return err;
}
/*
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2003-03-09 16:33 Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-03-09 17:20 ` [PATCH] Fix memory leak in copy_thread - correction Andi Kleen
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