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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2012-09-05 14:30:42 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2012-09-19 18:06:25 +0200
commit2d297480037e1d9100ca504737820c1bf65db6c0 (patch)
tree69f7a75359909a6d71a0dfa1ca96fc8f0e7e1b67 /arch/x86
parentx86, microcode, AMD: Rewrite patch application procedure (diff)
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x86, microcode, AMD: Fix use after free in free_cache()
list_for_each_entry_reverse() dereferences the iterator, but we already freed it. I don't see a reason that this has to be done in reverse order so change it to use list_for_each_entry_safe(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index 5511216b4434..7720ff5a9ee2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -150,9 +150,9 @@ static void update_cache(struct ucode_patch *new_patch)
static void free_cache(void)
{
- struct ucode_patch *p;
+ struct ucode_patch *p, *tmp;
- list_for_each_entry_reverse(p, &pcache, plist) {
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(p, tmp, &pcache, plist) {
__list_del(p->plist.prev, p->plist.next);
kfree(p->data);
kfree(p);