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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-10-29 15:56:16 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-10-28 23:26:17 +0100
commit65afac7d80ab3bc9f81e75eafb71eeb92a3ebdef (patch)
tree544c1e9192d8e47f1d1b1d54e36365f393ec7be0 /kernel
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus (diff)
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param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
e180a6b7759a "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers accessing random memory. Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all: 1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param. 2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory. The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are root-only writable. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 9da58eabdcb2..95ef27cf8e82 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -218,13 +218,9 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
return -ENOSPC;
}
- if (kp->flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
- kfree(*(char **)kp->arg);
-
/* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we
* don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */
if (slab_is_available()) {
- kp->flags |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED;
*(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kp->arg)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -605,11 +601,7 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod)
void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num)
{
- unsigned int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
- if (params[i].flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
- kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg);
+ /* FIXME: This should free kmalloced charp parameters. It doesn't. */
}
static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name,