> On Dec 31, 2017, at 2:24 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> The error path in write_ldt() tries to free old_ldt instead of the newly
> allocated new_ldt resulting in a memory leak. It also misses to clean up a
> half populated LDT pagetable, which is not a leak as it gets cleaned up
> when the process exits.
>
> Free both the potentially half populated LDT pagetable and the newly
> allocated LDT struct. This can be done unconditionally because once a LDT
> is mapped subsequent maps will succeed because the PTE page is already
> populated and the two LDTs fit into that single page.
>
> Fixes: f55f0501cbf6 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
> Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
> @@ -421,7 +421,13 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, u
> */
> error = map_ldt_struct(mm, new_ldt, old_ldt ? !old_ldt->slot : 0);
> if (error) {
> - free_ldt_struct(old_ldt);
> + /*
> + * This only can fail for the first LDT setup. If a LDT is
> + * already installed then the PTE page is already
> + * populated. Mop up a half populated page table.
> + */
I liked it better with the conditional. If this ever fails due to fault
injection, some silly accounting issue, a paravirt glitch, or whatever, then
we'll oops.
> + free_ldt_pgtables(mm);
> + free_ldt_struct(new_ldt);
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
