On 02/21/2013 08:55 PM, ebiederm at xmission.com wrote: > Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com> writes: > >> If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to initialize an allocated kimage, it will free >> the image but would still set 'rimage', as a result kexec_load will try >> to free it again. >> >> This would explode as part of the freeing process is accessing internal >> members which point to uninitialized memory. > > Agreed. > > I don't think that failure path has ever actually been exercised. trinity is actually quite good at hitting that, which is how I discovered it: [ 418.138251] Could not allocate control_code_buffer [ 418.143739] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 418.147131] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 418.147901] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 418.148697] Modules linked in: [ 418.153440] CPU 1 [ 418.153440] Pid: 18098, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.8.0-next-20130220-sasha-00037-gc07b3b2-dirty #7 [ 418.153440] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8119b5a6>] [<ffffffff8119b5a6>] kimage_free_page_list+0x16/0x50 [ 418.153440] RSP: 0018:ffff88009bfade78 EFLAGS: 00010292 [ 418.153440] RAX: 0000000000180004 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 418.153440] RDX: ffff88009c1a0000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b [ 418.153440] RBP: ffff88009bfade98 R08: 0000000000002782 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 418.153440] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88009c6cb4d0 [ 418.153440] R13: ffff88009c6cb720 R14: ffff88009c6cb4d0 R15: 00000000000000f6 [ 418.153440] FS: 00007fb7eb95b700(0000) GS:ffff8800bb800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 418.153440] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 418.153440] CR2: 00000000004808e0 CR3: 000000009eaaa000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [ 418.153440] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 418.153440] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 418.153440] Process trinity (pid: 18098, threadinfo ffff88009bfac000, task ffff88009c1a0000) [ 418.153440] Stack: [ 418.153440] ffffffff8546e948 0000000000000002 ffff88009c6cb4d0 0000000000000000 [ 418.153440] ffff88009bfaded8 ffffffff8119b60f 0000000000000002 0000000000000002 [ 418.153440] ffff88009c6cb4d0 ffff88009c6cb4d0 fffffffffffffff4 00000000000000f6 [ 418.153440] Call Trace: [ 418.153440] [<ffffffff8119b60f>] kimage_free+0x2f/0x100 [ 418.153440] [<ffffffff8119c563>] sys_kexec_load+0x593/0x660 [ 418.153440] [<ffffffff8118363d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 418.153440] [<ffffffff83dab7d8>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 [ 418.153440] Code: c1 ef 0c 55 48 c1 e7 06 48 89 e5 48 01 c7 e8 82 ff ff ff 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 41 55 49 89 fd 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 3f 49 39 fd <48> 8b 1f 75 08 eb 22 0f 1f 00 48 89 d3 4c 8d 67 e0 e8 54 a6 8a [ 418.153440] RIP [<ffffffff8119b5a6>] kimage_free_page_list+0x16/0x50 [ 418.153440] RSP <ffff88009bfade78> [ 418.219646] ---[ end trace 0adb1d6b71fefb29 ]--- Thanks, Sasha
