The patch titled Subject: binfmt_elf: fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: binfmt_elf: fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data If elf_core_dump() is called and fill_note_info() fails in the kmalloc() then it returns 0 but has not yet initialised all the needed fields. As a result we do a kfree(randomness) after correctly skipping the thread data. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/binfmt_elf.c~binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data fs/binfmt_elf.c --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1600,8 +1600,10 @@ static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr info->thread = NULL; psinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*psinfo), GFP_KERNEL); - if (psinfo == NULL) + if (psinfo == NULL) { + info->psinfo.data = NULL; /* So we don't free this wrongly */ return 0; + } fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-message-fusion-mptscsihc-missing-break.patch binfmt_elf-fix-corner-case-kfree-of-uninitialized-data.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html