Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jul 2022 16:34:43 +0800 | From | Baoquan He <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] proc/vmcore: fix potential memory leak in vmcore_init() |
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On 07/04/22 at 04:18pm, Jianglei Nie wrote: > elfcorehdr_alloc() allocates a memory chunk for elfcorehdr_addr with > kzalloc(). If is_vmcore_usable() returns false, elfcorehdr_addr is a > predefined value. If parse_crash_elf_headers() occurs some error and > returns a negetive value, the elfcorehdr_addr should be released with > elfcorehdr_free(). > > We can fix by calling elfcorehdr_free() when parse_crash_elf_headers() > fails.
LGTM,
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com> > --- > fs/proc/vmcore.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c > index 4eaeb645e759..86887bd90263 100644 > --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c > +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c > @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ static int __init vmcore_init(void) > rc = parse_crash_elf_headers(); > if (rc) { > pr_warn("Kdump: vmcore not initialized\n"); > - return rc; > + goto fail; > } > elfcorehdr_free(elfcorehdr_addr); > elfcorehdr_addr = ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR; > @@ -1577,6 +1577,9 @@ static int __init vmcore_init(void) > proc_vmcore = proc_create("vmcore", S_IRUSR, NULL, &vmcore_proc_ops); > if (proc_vmcore) > proc_vmcore->size = vmcore_size; > + > +fail: > + elfcorehdr_free(elfcorehdr_addr); > return 0; > } > fs_initcall(vmcore_init); > -- > 2.25.1 >
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