x86/kexec: Fix double-free of elf header buffer
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:51:22 +0000 (12:51 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:59:17 +0000 (11:59 +0100)
commit d00dd2f2645dca04cf399d8fc692f3f69b6dd996 upstream.

After

  b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer"),

freeing image->elf_headers in the error path of crash_load_segments()
is not needed because kimage_file_post_load_cleanup() will take
care of that later. And not clearing it could result in a double-free.

Drop the superfluous vfree() call at the error path of
crash_load_segments().

Fixes: b3e34a47f989 ("x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122115122.13937-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c

index e8326a8..03a454d 100644 (file)
@@ -401,10 +401,8 @@ int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image)
        kbuf.buf_align = ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN;
        kbuf.mem = KEXEC_BUF_MEM_UNKNOWN;
        ret = kexec_add_buffer(&kbuf);
-       if (ret) {
-               vfree((void *)image->elf_headers);
+       if (ret)
                return ret;
-       }
        image->elf_load_addr = kbuf.mem;
        pr_debug("Loaded ELF headers at 0x%lx bufsz=0x%lx memsz=0x%lx\n",
                 image->elf_load_addr, kbuf.bufsz, kbuf.bufsz);