linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 26/39] kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt

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Date:   Wed,  3 Jan 2018 21:11:40 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 26/39] kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct()

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>


An error from kaiser_add_mapping() here is not at all likely, but
Eric Biggers rightly points out that __free_ldt_struct() relies on
new_ldt->size being initialized: move that up.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ static struct ldt_struct *alloc_ldt_stru
 
 	ret = kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long)new_ldt->entries, alloc_size,
 				 __PAGE_KERNEL);
+	new_ldt->size = size;
 	if (ret) {
 		__free_ldt_struct(new_ldt);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	new_ldt->size = size;
 	return new_ldt;
 }