From: Philipp Rudo Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:16:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: s390/kdump: Fix memleak in nt_vmcoreinfo X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d2e7075b87181ed0c675e4936e20bdadba02e1f;p=linux.git s390/kdump: Fix memleak in nt_vmcoreinfo The vmcoreinfo of a crashed system is potentially fragmented. Thus the crash kernel has an intermediate step where the vmcoreinfo is copied into a temporary, continuous buffer in the crash kernel memory. This temporary buffer is never freed. Free it now to prevent the memleak. While at it replace all occurrences of "VMCOREINFO" by its corresponding macro to prevent potential renaming issues. Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c index 4b2773e1ddfe2..27d2b7093ea03 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -451,11 +451,13 @@ static void *get_vmcoreinfo_old(unsigned long *size) if (copy_oldmem_kernel(nt_name, addr + sizeof(note), sizeof(nt_name) - 1)) return NULL; - if (strcmp(nt_name, "VMCOREINFO") != 0) + if (strcmp(nt_name, VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME) != 0) return NULL; vmcoreinfo = kzalloc_panic(note.n_descsz); - if (copy_oldmem_kernel(vmcoreinfo, addr + 24, note.n_descsz)) + if (copy_oldmem_kernel(vmcoreinfo, addr + 24, note.n_descsz)) { + kfree(vmcoreinfo); return NULL; + } *size = note.n_descsz; return vmcoreinfo; } @@ -465,15 +467,20 @@ static void *get_vmcoreinfo_old(unsigned long *size) */ static void *nt_vmcoreinfo(void *ptr) { + const char *name = VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME; unsigned long size; void *vmcoreinfo; vmcoreinfo = os_info_old_entry(OS_INFO_VMCOREINFO, &size); - if (!vmcoreinfo) - vmcoreinfo = get_vmcoreinfo_old(&size); + if (vmcoreinfo) + return nt_init_name(ptr, 0, vmcoreinfo, size, name); + + vmcoreinfo = get_vmcoreinfo_old(&size); if (!vmcoreinfo) return ptr; - return nt_init_name(ptr, 0, vmcoreinfo, size, "VMCOREINFO"); + ptr = nt_init_name(ptr, 0, vmcoreinfo, size, name); + kfree(vmcoreinfo); + return ptr; } static size_t nt_vmcoreinfo_size(void)