From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 13:54:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201905221353.AD8E585E6D@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522015055.GC4093@zhanggen-UX430UQ>
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:50:55AM +0800, Gen Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This doesn't look safe to me: p->uni_pgdir[n] will still have a handle
> > to the freed memory, won't it?
> >
> Thanks for your reply, Kees!
> I think you are right. Maybe we should do this:
> kfree(p1);
> p->uni_pgdir[n] = NULL;
> Is this correct?
That's what I'm not sure about. I *think* so, from reading the code, but
I'd love to have Greg (or someone more familiar with the code) to
double-check this.
Otherwise, yeah, this looks right. Please send a v2 and we can debate
the correctness there, if it turns out to be wrong. :)
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-22 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-21 9:29 [PATCH] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c Gen Zhang
2019-05-21 20:44 ` Kees Cook
2019-05-22 1:50 ` Gen Zhang
2019-05-22 20:54 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-05-23 0:29 ` Gen Zhang
2019-05-23 0:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Gen Zhang
2019-05-23 16:54 ` Kees Cook
2019-05-24 2:14 ` Gen Zhang
2019-05-24 2:19 ` [PATCH v2] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in con_insert_unipair() Gen Zhang
2019-05-24 8:02 ` Greg KH
2019-05-24 9:37 ` [PATCH v2] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c Jon Hunter
2019-05-25 6:04 ` Kees Cook
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