From patchwork Tue May 7 13:38:57 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 242284 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D482C012F for ; Tue, 7 May 2013 23:45:32 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UZiCs-0005T2-QR; Tue, 07 May 2013 13:45:26 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UZi9c-0003W3-Q0 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 07 May 2013 13:42:04 +0000 Received: from bl16-161-151.dsl.telepac.pt ([188.81.161.151] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZi9c-0000VY-Iz; Tue, 07 May 2013 13:42:04 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 091/118] iwlwifi: fix freeing uninitialized pointer Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 14:38:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1367933964-1564-92-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1367933964-1564-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1367933964-1564-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka , Johannes Berg X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stanislaw Gruszka commit 3309ccf7fcebceef540ebe90c65d2f94d745a45b upstream. If on iwl_dump_nic_event_log() error occurs before that function initialize buf, we process uninitiated pointer in iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read() and can hit "BUG at mm/slub.c:3409" Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951241 Reported-by: ian.odette@eprize.com Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg [ luis: backport to 3.5: - file rename: dvm/debugfs.c -> iwl-debugfs.c ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c index 5000690..ba376ec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c @@ -2248,15 +2248,15 @@ static ssize_t iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read(struct file *file, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { struct iwl_priv *priv = file->private_data; - char *buf; - int pos = 0; - ssize_t ret = -ENOMEM; + char *buf = NULL; + ssize_t ret; - ret = pos = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true); - if (buf) { - ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, pos); - kfree(buf); - } + ret = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true); + if (ret < 0) + goto err; + ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, ret); +err: + kfree(buf); return ret; }