linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/uncore: fix a potential double-free in uncore_type

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:40:16 +0200
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/uncore: fix a potential double-free in
 uncore_type_init

On 5/12/23 05:27, Dinghao Liu wrote:
> When kzalloc for pmus[i].boxes fails, we should clean up pmus
> to prevent memleak. However, when kzalloc for attr_group fails,
> pmus has been assigned to type->pmus, and freeing will be done
> later on by the callers. The chain is: uncore_type_init ->
> uncore_types_init -> uncore_pci_init -> uncore_types_exit ->
> uncore_type_exit. Therefore, freeing pmus in uncore_type_init
> may cause a double-free. Fix this by setting type->pmus to
> NULL after kfree.
> 
> Fixes: 629eb703d3e4 ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix memory leaks on allocation failures")
> Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@....edu.cn>

Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
> index 01023aa5125b..d80445a24011 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c
> @@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ static int __init uncore_type_init(struct intel_uncore_type *type, bool setid)
>  	for (i = 0; i < type->num_boxes; i++)
>  		kfree(pmus[i].boxes);
>  	kfree(pmus);
> +	type->pmus = NULL;
>  
>  	return -ENOMEM;
>  }