linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] staging: zram: prevent accessing an unallocated table when init fails early

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Date:	Tue,  6 Sep 2011 15:02:12 +0200
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] staging: zram: prevent accessing an unallocated table when init fails early

When the allocation of zram->table fails, we set zram->disksize to zero
to prevent accessing the unallocated table entries during cleanup.
However, we currently don't take this precaution when the initialization
fails earlier.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 2d1c8bd..b99cf53 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -651,24 +651,22 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
 	if (!zram->compress_workmem) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating compressor working memory!\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto fail;
+		goto fail_no_table;
 	}
 
 	zram->compress_buffer = (void *)__get_free_pages(__GFP_ZERO, 1);
 	if (!zram->compress_buffer) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating compressor buffer space\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto fail;
+		goto fail_no_table;
 	}
 
 	num_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	zram->table = vzalloc(num_pages * sizeof(*zram->table));
 	if (!zram->table) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating zram address table\n");
-		/* To prevent accessing table entries during cleanup */
-		zram->disksize = 0;
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto fail;
+		goto fail_no_table;
 	}
 
 	set_capacity(zram->disk, zram->disksize >> SECTOR_SHIFT);
@@ -689,6 +687,9 @@ int zram_init_device(struct zram *zram)
 	pr_debug("Initialization done!\n");
 	return 0;
 
+fail_no_table:
+	/* To prevent accessing table entries during cleanup */
+	zram->disksize = 0;
 fail:
 	__zram_reset_device(zram);
 	up_write(&zram->init_lock);
-- 
1.7.6

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