netdev - [PATCH net v2] gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:33:43 +0100
From:	Ignacy Gawędzki 
	<ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2] gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use

The gnet_stats_copy_app() function gets called, more often than not, with its
second argument a pointer to an automatic variable in the caller's stack.
Therefore, to avoid copying garbage afterwards when calling
gnet_stats_finish_copy(), this data is better copied to a dynamically allocated
memory that gets freed after use.

Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@...en-communications.fr>
---
 net/core/gen_stats.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/gen_stats.c b/net/core/gen_stats.c
index 0c08062..5ad2fe7 100644
--- a/net/core/gen_stats.c
+++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ gnet_stats_copy(struct gnet_dump *d, int type, void *buf, int size)
 	return 0;
 
 nla_put_failure:
+	kfree(d->xstats);
+	d->xstats = NULL;
+	d->xstats_len = 0;
 	spin_unlock_bh(d->lock);
 	return -1;
 }
@@ -305,7 +308,11 @@ int
 gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, void *st, int len)
 {
 	if (d->compat_xstats) {
-		d->xstats = st;
+		kfree(d->xstats);
+		d->xstats = kmalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!d->xstats)
+			goto kmalloc_failure;
+		memcpy(d->xstats, st, len);
 		d->xstats_len = len;
 	}
 
@@ -313,6 +320,10 @@ gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, void *st, int len)
 		return gnet_stats_copy(d, TCA_STATS_APP, st, len);
 
 	return 0;
+kmalloc_failure:
+	d->xstats_len = 0;
+	spin_unlock_bh(d->lock);
+	return -1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gnet_stats_copy_app);
 
@@ -345,6 +356,9 @@ gnet_stats_finish_copy(struct gnet_dump *d)
 			return -1;
 	}
 
+	kfree(d->xstats);
+	d->xstats = NULL;
+	d->xstats_len = 0;
 	spin_unlock_bh(d->lock);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.9.1
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