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Subject[PATCH] x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer
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The recent fix for memory leaks forgot to clear the error path that
already does vfree() for the elf headers. This may result in a
double-free.

Drop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of
crash_load_segments().

Fixes: b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index 9730c88530fc..305514431f26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -401,10 +401,8 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
kbuf.buf_align = ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN;
kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
- if (ret) {
- vfree((void *)image->elf_headers);
+ if (ret)
return ret;
- }
image->elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
pr_debug("Loaded ELF headers at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
image->elf_load_addr, kbuf.bufsz, kbuf.memsz);
--
2.35.3
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