Prerequisites for this patch are: 1) dm-exception-store-introduce-registry.patch 2) dm-exception-store-move-dm_target-pointer.patch 3) dm-exception-store-move-chunk_fields.patch 4) dm-exception-store-move-cow-pointer.patch 5) dm-snapshot-remove-dm_snap-header-use.patch 6) dm-snapshot-remove-dm_snap-header.patch 7) dm-snapshot-use-DMEMIT-macro-for-status.patch 8) dm-snapshot-move-ctr-parsing-to-exception-store.patch 9) dm-snapshot-move-status-to-exception-store.patch 10) dm-exception-store-generalize-table-args.patch 11) dm-snapshot-new-ctr-table-format.patch 12) dm-snapshot-cleanup.patch 13) dm-snap-minor-fix.patch 14) dm-snap-fix-status-output.patch brassow The persistent exception store destructor does not properly account for all conditions in which it can be called. If it is called after 'ctr' but before 'read_metadata' - like if something else in 'snapshot_ctr' fails - then it will attempt to free areas of memory that haven't been allocated yet. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c @@ -162,9 +162,12 @@ static int alloc_area(struct pstore *ps) static void free_area(struct pstore *ps) { - vfree(ps->area); + if (ps->area) + vfree(ps->area); ps->area = NULL; - vfree(ps->zero_area); + + if (ps->zero_area) + vfree(ps->zero_area); ps->zero_area = NULL; } @@ -481,10 +484,17 @@ static void persistent_dtr(struct dm_exc { struct pstore *ps = get_info(store); - destroy_workqueue(ps->metadata_wq); - dm_io_client_destroy(ps->io_client); - vfree(ps->callbacks); + /* Created in read_header */ + if (ps->io_client) + dm_io_client_destroy(ps->io_client); free_area(ps); + + /* Allocated in persistent_read_metadata */ + if (ps->callbacks) + vfree(ps->callbacks); + + /* Don't need to check these, because they are done in ctr */ + destroy_workqueue(ps->metadata_wq); kfree(ps); } @@ -661,7 +671,7 @@ static int persistent_ctr(struct dm_exce struct pstore *ps; /* allocate the pstore */ - ps = kmalloc(sizeof(*ps), GFP_KERNEL); + ps = kzalloc(sizeof(*ps), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ps) return -ENOMEM; -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel