Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <> | Subject | [PATCH 08/10] uml: cleanup run_helper() API to fix a leak | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:27:19 +0200 |
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From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Freeing the stack is left uselessly to the caller of run_helper in some cases - this is taken from run_helper_thread, but here it is useless, so no caller needs it and the only place where this happens has a potential leak - in case of error neither run_helper() nor xterm_open() call free_stack(). At this point passing a pointer is not needed - the stack pointer should be passed directly, but this change is not done here.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> ---
arch/um/drivers/xterm.c | 2 -- arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c b/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c index 386f8b9..850221d 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c @@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ int xterm_open(int input, int output, in return(pid); } - if(data->stack == 0) free_stack(stack, 0); - if (data->direct_rcv) { new = os_rcv_fd(fd, &data->helper_pid); } else { diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c index e887179..c316dfc 100644 --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ static int helper_child(void *arg) } /* Returns either the pid of the child process we run or -E* on failure. - * XXX The alloc_stack here breaks if this is called in the tracing thread */ + * XXX The alloc_stack here breaks if this is called in the tracing thread, so + * we need to receive a preallocated stack (a local buffer is ok). */ int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv, unsigned long *stack_out) { @@ -118,10 +119,8 @@ out_close: close(fds[1]); close(fds[0]); out_free: - if (stack_out == NULL) + if ((stack_out == NULL) || (*stack_out == 0)) free_stack(stack, 0); - else - *stack_out = stack; return ret; } Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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