[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: Free fdt on error in elf64_load()

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Apr 22 00:01:38 AEST 2021


On 4/21/21 12:18 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com> writes:
>> There are a few "goto out;" statements before the local variable "fdt"
>> is initialized through the call to of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt() in
>> elf64_load().  This will result in an uninitialized "fdt" being passed
>> to kvfree() in this function if there is an error before the call to
>> of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt().
>>
>> If there is any error after fdt is allocated, but before it is
>> saved in the arch specific kimage struct, free the fdt.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
>> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> 
> I basically sent you the diff, so this should probably be:
> 
>    Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
>    Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>    Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>    Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
> 
> Otherwise looks good to me, thanks for turning it into a proper patch
> and submitting it.

I will submit the patch again with the above change.
Thanks for reviewing the patch.

Could you please review [PATCH 2/2] as well?

thanks,
  -lakshmi

> 
> cheers
> 
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
>> index 5a569bb51349..02662e72c53d 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
>> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>>   	ret = setup_new_fdt_ppc64(image, fdt, initrd_load_addr,
>>   				  initrd_len, cmdline);
>>   	if (ret)
>> -		goto out;
>> +		goto out_free_fdt;
>>   
>>   	fdt_pack(fdt);
>>   
>> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>>   	kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
>>   	ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
>>   	if (ret)
>> -		goto out;
>> +		goto out_free_fdt;
>>   
>>   	/* FDT will be freed in arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup */
>>   	image->arch.fdt = fdt;
>> @@ -140,18 +140,14 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>>   	if (ret)
>>   		pr_err("Error setting up the purgatory.\n");
>>   
>> +	goto out;
>> +
>> +out_free_fdt:
>> +	kvfree(fdt);
>>   out:
>>   	kfree(modified_cmdline);
>>   	kexec_free_elf_info(&elf_info);
>>   
>> -	/*
>> -	 * Once FDT buffer has been successfully passed to kexec_add_buffer(),
>> -	 * the FDT buffer address is saved in image->arch.fdt. In that case,
>> -	 * the memory cannot be freed here in case of any other error.
>> -	 */
>> -	if (ret && !image->arch.fdt)
>> -		kvfree(fdt);
>> -
>>   	return ret ? ERR_PTR(ret) : NULL;
>>   }
>>   
>> -- 
>> 2.31.0



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