From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seqfile: fix uninitialized memory allocation in mounts_open()
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:01:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <387168476.07132@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20070815090116.GA19893@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070815085637.GA19293@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:56:37PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
> may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
It's weird it did not show up in real world. Could I be wrong?
> --- linux.orig/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ linux/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int mounts_open(struct inode *ino
>
> if (ns) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - p = kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_mounts), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct proc_mounts), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (p) {
> file->private_data = &p->m;
> ret = seq_open(file, &mounts_op);
>
> -
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070815085637.GA19293@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-15 8:56 ` [PATCH] seqfile: fix uninitialized memory allocation in mounts_open() Fengguang Wu
2007-08-15 9:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
[not found] ` <20070815090855.GB19293@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-15 9:08 ` Fengguang Wu
[not found] ` <20070815090116.GA19893@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-15 9:01 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
[not found] ` <20070815090549.GB19893@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-15 9:05 ` [PATCH] seqfile: merge duplite code to seq_open_private() Fengguang Wu
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