From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/xen: avoid freeing static 'name' when kasprintf() fails
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:06:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420463205-19249-1-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com> (raw)
In case kasprintf() fails in xen_setup_timer() we assign name to the static
string "<timer kasprintf failed>". We, however, don't check that fact before
issuing kfree() in xen_teardown_timer(), kernel is supposed to crash with
'kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3341!'
Solve the issue by making name a fixed length string inside struct
xen_clock_event_device. 16 bytes should be enough.
The issue was discovered by Laszlo Ersek.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/xen/time.c | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/time.c b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
index f473d26..221ebb6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static const struct clock_event_device *xen_clockevent =
struct xen_clock_event_device {
struct clock_event_device evt;
- char *name;
+ char name[16];
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_clock_event_device, xen_clock_events) = { .evt.irq = -1 };
@@ -420,14 +420,11 @@ void xen_teardown_timer(int cpu)
if (evt->irq >= 0) {
unbind_from_irqhandler(evt->irq, NULL);
evt->irq = -1;
- kfree(per_cpu(xen_clock_events, cpu).name);
- per_cpu(xen_clock_events, cpu).name = NULL;
}
}
void xen_setup_timer(int cpu)
{
- char *name;
struct clock_event_device *evt;
int irq;
@@ -438,21 +435,19 @@ void xen_setup_timer(int cpu)
printk(KERN_INFO "installing Xen timer for CPU %d\n", cpu);
- name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "timer%d", cpu);
- if (!name)
- name = "<timer kasprintf failed>";
+ snprintf(per_cpu(xen_clock_events, cpu).name, 16, "timer%d", cpu);
irq = bind_virq_to_irqhandler(VIRQ_TIMER, cpu, xen_timer_interrupt,
IRQF_PERCPU|IRQF_NOBALANCING|IRQF_TIMER|
IRQF_FORCE_RESUME|IRQF_EARLY_RESUME,
- name, NULL);
+ per_cpu(xen_clock_events, cpu).name,
+ NULL);
(void)xen_set_irq_priority(irq, XEN_IRQ_PRIORITY_MAX);
memcpy(evt, xen_clockevent, sizeof(*evt));
evt->cpumask = cpumask_of(cpu);
evt->irq = irq;
- per_cpu(xen_clock_events, cpu).name = name;
}
--
1.9.3
next reply other threads:[~2015-01-05 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-05 13:06 Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2015-01-05 13:19 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-01-05 13:58 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-01-05 15:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-01-05 15:36 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-01-08 14:36 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
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