netdev - Re: [patch] ipvs: freeing uninitialized pointer on error

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:56:11 +0200 (EET)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:	Wensong Zhang <wensong@...ux-vs.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipvs: freeing uninitialized pointer on error


	Hello,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> If state != IP_VS_STATE_BACKUP then tinfo->buf is uninitialized.  If
> kthread_run() fails then it means we free random memory resulting in an
> oops.

	Good catch. Simon, please apply!

	Problem is in 3.5+ caused by commit f73181c828
(ipvs: add support for sync threads)

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>

> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
> index effa10c..44fd10c 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c
> @@ -1795,6 +1795,8 @@ int start_sync_thread(struct net *net, int state, char *mcast_ifn, __u8 syncid)
>  					     GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (!tinfo->buf)
>  				goto outtinfo;
> +		} else {
> +			tinfo->buf = NULL;
>  		}
>  		tinfo->id = id;

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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