3.2.69-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1c4cff0cf55011792125b6041bc4e9713e46240f ] The gnet_stats_copy_app() function gets called, more often than not, with its second argument a pointer to an automatic variable in the caller's stack. Therefore, to avoid copying garbage afterwards when calling gnet_stats_finish_copy(), this data is better copied to a dynamically allocated memory that gets freed after use. [xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx: remove a useless kfree()] Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/gen_stats.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/gen_stats.c +++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ gnet_stats_copy(struct gnet_dump *d, int return 0; nla_put_failure: + kfree(d->xstats); + d->xstats = NULL; + d->xstats_len = 0; spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); return -1; } @@ -204,7 +207,9 @@ int gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, void *st, int len) { if (d->compat_xstats) { - d->xstats = st; + d->xstats = kmemdup(st, len, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!d->xstats) + goto err_out; d->xstats_len = len; } @@ -212,6 +217,11 @@ gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, return gnet_stats_copy(d, TCA_STATS_APP, st, len); return 0; + +err_out: + d->xstats_len = 0; + spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); + return -1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gnet_stats_copy_app); @@ -244,6 +254,9 @@ gnet_stats_finish_copy(struct gnet_dump return -1; } + kfree(d->xstats); + d->xstats = NULL; + d->xstats_len = 0; spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); return 0; } -- 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