On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > Commit 38f38657444d ("xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs") moved > some code from tmpfs but introduced a subtle bug along the way. > > If the name passed to simple_xattr_remove() does not exist in the list of > xattrs, then it is possible to call kfree(new_xattr) when new_xattr is > actually initialized to itself on the stack via uninitialized_var(). > > This causes a BUG() since the memory was not allocated via the slab > allocator and was not bypassed through to the page allocator because it > was too large. > > Initialize the local variable to NULL so the kfree() never takes place. > > Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Thank you both: a fine example of the danger of uninitialized_var()! > --- > fs/xattr.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c > --- a/fs/xattr.c > +++ b/fs/xattr.c > @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static int __simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs > *xattrs, const char *name, > const void *value, size_t size, int flags) > { > struct simple_xattr *xattr; > - struct simple_xattr *uninitialized_var(new_xattr); > + struct simple_xattr *new_xattr = NULL; > int err = 0; > > /* value == NULL means remove */ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/