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Message-ID: <Y33lkRP23X3tN1Px@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:19:13 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer
CC kexec@...ts.infradead.org
On 11/22/22 at 12:51pm, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The recent fix for memory leaks forgot to clear the error path that
> already does vfree() for the elf headers. This may result in a
> double-free.
Good catch.
The log can be improved to make the issue more obvious. How about this:
======
With commit b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header
buffer"), freeing up image->elf_headers in error path of
crash_load_segments() is not needed, because later
kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() will cover it. And not clearing it could
result in a double-free.
Drop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of
crash_load_segments().
========
Other than the log part, LGTM. Thanks.
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
>
> Drop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of
> crash_load_segments().
>
> Fixes: b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer")
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
> index 9730c88530fc..305514431f26 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
> @@ -401,10 +401,8 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
> kbuf.buf_align = ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN;
> kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
> ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
> - if (ret) {
> - vfree((void *)image->elf_headers);
> + if (ret)
> return ret;
> - }
> image->elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
> pr_debug("Loaded ELF headers at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
> image->elf_load_addr, kbuf.bufsz, kbuf.memsz);
> --
> 2.35.3
>
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