From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@freescale.com>,
Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] edac_mc: fix messy kfree calls in the error path
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:18:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120923001806.GB8383@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzCzF5DZvR6i=Jg+0abSzN_nbAVr7Ef1dzmR3_NNLWmfw@mail.gmail.com>
coccinelle warns about:
+ drivers/edac/edac_mc.c:429:9-23: ERROR: reference preceded by free on line 429
421 if (mci->csrows) {
> 422 for (chn = 0; chn < tot_channels; chn++) {
423 csr = mci->csrows[chn];
424 if (csr) {
> 425 for (chn = 0; chn < tot_channels; chn++)
426 kfree(csr->channels[chn]);
427 kfree(csr);
428 }
> 429 kfree(mci->csrows[i]);
430 }
431 kfree(mci->csrows);
432 }
and that code block seem to mess things up in several ways (double free, memory
leak, out-of-bound reads etc.):
L422: The iterator "chn" and bound "tot_channels" are totally wrong. Should be
"row" and "tot_csrows" respectively. Which means either memory leak, or
out-of-bound reads (which if does not trigger an immediate page fault
error, will further lead to kfree() on random addresses).
L425: The inner loop is reusing the same iterator "chn" as the outer loop,
which could lead to premature end of the outer loop, and hence memory leak.
L429: The array index 'i' in mci->csrows[i] is a temporary value used in
previous loops, and won't change at all in the current loop. Which
means either out-of-bound read and possibly kfree(random number), or the
same mci->csrows[i] get freed once and again, and possibly double free
for the kfree(csr) in L427.
L426/L427: a kfree(csr->channels) is needed in between to avoid leaking the memory.
The buggy code was introduced by commit de3910eb ("edac: change the mem
allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy") in the 3.6-rc1
merge window. Fix it by freeing up resources in this order:
free csrows[i]->channels[j]
free csrows[i]->channels
free csrows[i]
free csrows
CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
CC: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- linux.orig/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c 2012-08-12 10:10:38.115520521 +0800
+++ linux/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c 2012-09-23 07:30:40.382206820 +0800
@@ -419,14 +419,16 @@ error:
kfree(mci->dimms);
}
if (mci->csrows) {
- for (chn = 0; chn < tot_channels; chn++) {
- csr = mci->csrows[chn];
+ for (row = 0; row < tot_csrows; row++) {
+ csr = mci->csrows[row];
if (csr) {
- for (chn = 0; chn < tot_channels; chn++)
- kfree(csr->channels[chn]);
+ if (csr->channels) {
+ for (chn = 0; chn < tot_channels; chn++)
+ kfree(csr->channels[chn]);
+ kfree(csr->channels);
+ }
kfree(csr);
}
- kfree(mci->csrows[i]);
}
kfree(mci->csrows);
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-23 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-16 22:59 Linux 3.6-rc6 Linus Torvalds
2012-09-22 0:59 ` Shaun Ruffell
2012-09-22 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-23 0:15 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-09-23 1:26 ` [PATCH] edac_mc: edac_mc_free() cannot assume mem_ctl_info is registered in sysfs Shaun Ruffell
2012-09-23 0:18 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2012-09-23 13:32 ` Linux 3.6-rc6 Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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