From: Ignacy Gawędzki <[email protected]> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
=============== [ Upstream commit 1c4cff0cf55011792125b6041bc4e9713e46240f ] The gnet_stats_copy_app() function gets called, more often than not, with its second argument a pointer to an automatic variable in the caller's stack. Therefore, to avoid copying garbage afterwards when calling gnet_stats_finish_copy(), this data is better copied to a dynamically allocated memory that gets freed after use. [[email protected]: remove a useless kfree()] Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> --- net/core/gen_stats.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/gen_stats.c b/net/core/gen_stats.c index 9d3d9e78397b..372ac662adf9 100644 --- a/net/core/gen_stats.c +++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ gnet_stats_copy(struct gnet_dump *d, int type, void *buf, int size) return 0; nla_put_failure: + kfree(d->xstats); + d->xstats = NULL; + d->xstats_len = 0; spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); return -1; } @@ -217,7 +220,9 @@ int gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, void *st, int len) { if (d->compat_xstats) { - d->xstats = st; + d->xstats = kmemdup(st, len, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!d->xstats) + goto err_out; d->xstats_len = len; } @@ -225,6 +230,11 @@ gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d, void *st, int len) return gnet_stats_copy(d, TCA_STATS_APP, st, len); return 0; + +err_out: + d->xstats_len = 0; + spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); + return -1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gnet_stats_copy_app); @@ -257,6 +267,9 @@ gnet_stats_finish_copy(struct gnet_dump *d) return -1; } + kfree(d->xstats); + d->xstats = NULL; + d->xstats_len = 0; spin_unlock_bh(d->lock); return 0; } -- 2.3.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
