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From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
To: ralf@linux-mips.org, paulburton@kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: VPE: Fix a double free and a memory leak in 'release_vpe()'
Date: Sun,  2 Feb 2020 21:19:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200202201922.22852-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> (raw)

Pointer on the memory allocated by 'alloc_progmem()' is stored in
'v->load_addr'. So this is this memory that should be freed by
'release_progmem()'.

'release_progmem()' is only a call to 'kfree()'.

With the current code, there is both a double free and a memory leak.
Fix it by passing the correct pointer to 'release_progmem()'.

Fixes: e01402b115ccc ("More AP / SP bits for the 34K, the Malta bits and things. Still wants")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
Un-tested

The 'if (v->load_addr)' looks also redundant, but, well, the code is old
and I feel lazy tonight to send another patch for only that.
---
 arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
index 6176b9acba95..d0d832ab3d3b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void release_vpe(struct vpe *v)
 {
 	list_del(&v->list);
 	if (v->load_addr)
-		release_progmem(v);
+		release_progmem(v->load_addr);
 	kfree(v);
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-02 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-02 20:19 Christophe JAILLET [this message]
2020-02-15 22:56 ` [PATCH] MIPS: VPE: Fix a double free and a memory leak in 'release_vpe()' Paul Burton

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