This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kexec-fix-double-free-when-failing-to-relocate-the-purgatory.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 070c43eea5043e950daa423707ae3c77e2f48edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 16:14:44 -0700 Subject: kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 070c43eea5043e950daa423707ae3c77e2f48edb upstream. If kexec_apply_relocations fails, kexec_load_purgatory frees pi->sechdrs and pi->purgatory_buf. This is redundant, because in case of error kimage_file_prepare_segments calls kimage_file_post_load_cleanup, which will also free those buffers. This causes two warnings like the following, one for pi->sechdrs and the other for pi->purgatory_buf: kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2119 at mm/vmalloc.c:1490 __vunmap+0xc1/0xd0 Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (ffffc90000e91000) Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 2119 Comm: kexec Not tainted 4.8.0-rc3+ #5 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4d/0x65 __warn+0xcb/0xf0 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60 ? find_vmap_area+0x19/0x70 ? kimage_file_post_load_cleanup+0x47/0xb0 __vunmap+0xc1/0xd0 vfree+0x2e/0x70 kimage_file_post_load_cleanup+0x5e/0xb0 SyS_kexec_file_load+0x448/0x680 ? putname+0x54/0x60 ? do_sys_open+0x190/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f ---[ end trace 158bb74f5950ca2b ]--- Fix by setting pi->sechdrs an pi->purgatory_buf to NULL, since vfree won't try to free a NULL pointer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472083546-23683-1-git-send-email-bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kexec_file.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c @@ -887,7 +887,10 @@ int kexec_load_purgatory(struct kimage * return 0; out: vfree(pi->sechdrs); + pi->sechdrs = NULL; + vfree(pi->purgatory_buf); + pi->purgatory_buf = NULL; return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/kexec-fix-double-free-when-failing-to-relocate-the-purgatory.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html