From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932265Ab1BYPd3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:33:29 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49687 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756033Ab1BYPd1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:33:27 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells Subject: [PATCH] RxRPC: Allocate tokens with kzalloc to avoid oops in rxrpc_destroy To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard , David Howells Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:33:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20110225153317.27901.95278.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Anton Blanchard With slab poisoning enabled, I see the following oops: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b73 ... NIP [c0000000006bc61c] .rxrpc_destroy+0x44/0x104 LR [c0000000006bc618] .rxrpc_destroy+0x40/0x104 Call Trace: [c0000000feb2bc00] [c0000000006bc618] .rxrpc_destroy+0x40/0x104 (unreliable) [c0000000feb2bc90] [c000000000349b2c] .key_cleanup+0x1a8/0x20c [c0000000feb2bd40] [c0000000000a2920] .process_one_work+0x2f4/0x4d0 [c0000000feb2be00] [c0000000000a2d50] .worker_thread+0x254/0x468 [c0000000feb2bec0] [c0000000000a868c] .kthread+0xbc/0xc8 [c0000000feb2bf90] [c000000000020e00] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 We aren't initialising token->next, but the code in destroy_context relies on the list being NULL terminated. Use kzalloc to zero out all the fields. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: David Howells --- net/rxrpc/ar-key.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-key.c b/net/rxrpc/ar-key.c index aa6afdc..43ea7de 100644 --- a/net/rxrpc/ar-key.c +++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-key.c @@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ static int rxrpc_instantiate_xdr_rxkad(struct key *key, const __be32 *xdr, return ret; plen -= sizeof(*token); - token = kmalloc(sizeof(*token), GFP_KERNEL); + token = kzalloc(sizeof(*token), GFP_KERNEL); if (!token) return -ENOMEM; - token->kad = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL); + token->kad = kzalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL); if (!token->kad) { kfree(token); return -ENOMEM; @@ -750,10 +750,10 @@ static int rxrpc_instantiate(struct key *key, const void *data, size_t datalen) goto error; ret = -ENOMEM; - token = kmalloc(sizeof(*token), GFP_KERNEL); + token = kzalloc(sizeof(*token), GFP_KERNEL); if (!token) goto error; - token->kad = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL); + token->kad = kzalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL); if (!token->kad) goto error_free;