Re: [GIT PULL] microcode loader updates

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:03:36PM +0100, Quentin Casasnovas wrote:
> So at the last loop iteration for j == i, we'll do kfree(saved_ptr[j])
> which AFAICT hasn't been initialized yet.  Using a kcalloc() your first
> allocation for saved_ptr should just work since the memory will be cleared
> and kfree(NULL) doesn't do anything.

You're correct, but(!)...

Practically, this is not a problem because @mc_saved_src being handed
down to save_microcode() is at both call sites initialized up to
mc_saved_count elements and the loop in save_microcode() only inspects
this far.

So actually, this test is not really needed:

                if (!mc_saved_src[i]) {
                        ret = -EINVAL;
                        goto err;
                }

AFAICT and if I'm not missing anything else, of course.

In any case, I'd like to keep this series cleanup-only (well, except
this one) and address your comments later. Don't worry, I haven't
forgotten them - I want to *not* fix everything in one go.

Agreed?

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    Boris.

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