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Message-Id: <1361496375-30994-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:26:15 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To: ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kexec: prevent double free on image allocation failure
If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to initialize an allocated kimage, it will free
the image but would still set 'rimage', as a result kexec_load will try
to free it again.
This would explode as part of the freeing process is accessing internal
members which point to uninitialized memory.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
---
kernel/kexec.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 2348bd6..855bfbb 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -242,8 +242,6 @@ static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
if (result)
goto out;
- *rimage = image;
-
/*
* Find a location for the control code buffer, and add it
* the vector of segments so that it's pages will also be
--
1.8.1.2
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