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MIPS: VPE: Fix a double free and a memory leak in 'release_vpe()'
authorChristophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Sun, 2 Feb 2020 20:19:22 +0000 (21:19 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:51:14 +0000 (07:51 +0100)
commit bef8e2dfceed6daeb6ca3e8d33f9c9d43b926580 upstream.

Pointer on the memory allocated by 'alloc_progmem()' is stored in
'v->load_addr'. So this is this memory that should be freed by
'release_progmem()'.

'release_progmem()' is only a call to 'kfree()'.

With the current code, there is both a double free and a memory leak.
Fix it by passing the correct pointer to 'release_progmem()'.

Fixes: e01402b115ccc ("More AP / SP bits for the 34K, the Malta bits and things. Still wants")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c

index 9067b651c7a2d91e02ee6a591b8cd912c2a209cf..ca93984ff5a6e66f1ef6519985ea212f68509a52 100644 (file)
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void release_vpe(struct vpe *v)
 {
        list_del(&v->list);
        if (v->load_addr)
-               release_progmem(v);
+               release_progmem(v->load_addr);
        kfree(v);
 }