This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use
to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
gen_stats.c-duplicate-xstats-buffer-for-later-use.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015
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<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:47:05 -0800
Subject: gen_stats.c: Duplicate xstats buffer for later use
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[ 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/core/gen_stats.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/gen_stats.c
+++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ gnet_stats_copy(struct gnet_dump *d, int
return 0;
nla_put_failure:
+ kfree(d->xstats);
+ d->xstats = NULL;
+ d->xstats_len = 0;
spin_unlock_bh(d->lock);
return -1;
}
@@ -305,7 +308,9 @@ 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;
}
@@ -313,6 +318,11 @@ gnet_stats_copy_app(struct gnet_dump *d,
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);
@@ -345,6 +355,9 @@ gnet_stats_finish_copy(struct gnet_dump
return -1;
}
+ kfree(d->xstats);
+ d->xstats = NULL;
+ d->xstats_len = 0;
spin_unlock_bh(d->lock);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.19/gen_stats.c-duplicate-xstats-buffer-for-later-use.patch
queue-3.19/ematch-fix-auto-loading-of-ematch-modules.patch
queue-3.19/rtnetlink-call-dellink-on-failure-when-newlink-exists.patch
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