? 2013?02?22? 11:41, Sasha Levin ??: > On 02/21/2013 09:46 PM, Zhang Yanfei wrote: >> ? 2013?02?22? 09:55, Eric W. Biederman ??: >>> 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. >>> >>> The code is wrong, and it is worth fixing. >>> >>> Andrew I do you think you could queue this up? I don't have a handy tree. >> >> >> I still found another malloc/free problem in this function. So I update the patch. >> >> --------------------- >> >> From 1fb76a35e4109e1435f55048c20ea58622e7f87b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com> >> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:34:02 +0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] kexec: fix allocation problems in function kimage_normal_alloc >> >> The function kimage_normal_alloc() has 2 allocation problems that may cause >> failures: >> >> 1. 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. >> >> 2. If kimage_normal_alloc() fails to alloc pages for image->swap_page, it >> should call kimage_free_page_list() to free allocated pages in >> image->control_pages list before it frees image. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com> >> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com> >> --- >> kernel/kexec.c | 10 ++++++---- >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c >> index 5e4bd78..f219357 100644 >> --- a/kernel/kexec.c >> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c >> @@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ out: >> >> } >> >> +static void kimage_free_page_list(struct list_head *list); >> + >> static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, >> unsigned long nr_segments, >> struct kexec_segment __user *segments) >> @@ -236,8 +238,6 @@ static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, >> if (result) >> goto out; >> >> - *rimage = image; >> - >> /* >> * Find a location for the control code buffer, and add it >> * the vector of segments so that it's pages will also be >> @@ -259,10 +259,12 @@ static int kimage_normal_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry, >> >> result = 0; >> out: >> - if (result == 0) >> + if (result == 0) { >> *rimage = image; >> - else >> + } else { >> + kimage_free_page_list(&image->control_pages); >> kfree(image); >> + } >> >> return result; >> } > > And if do_kimage_alloc() fails instead of kimage_alloc_control_pages() > you will NULL deref 'image', so now instead of leaking pages the kernel > will explode. Oh, I missed this. > > Either way, this issue you've pointed out should be fixed in a separate > patch. > > OK?I will send another patch. Thanks Zhang