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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


             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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