From 65afac7d80ab3bc9f81e75eafb71eeb92a3ebdef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:16 -0600 Subject: param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem. e180a6b7759a "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers accessing random memory. Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all: 1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param. 2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory. The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are root-only writable. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Christof Schmitt Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@kernel.org --- kernel/params.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 9da58eabdcb..95ef27cf8e8 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -218,13 +218,9 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) return -ENOSPC; } - if (kp->flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) - kfree(*(char **)kp->arg); - /* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */ if (slab_is_available()) { - kp->flags |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED; *(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL); if (!kp->arg) return -ENOMEM; @@ -605,11 +601,7 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod) void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num) { - unsigned int i; - - for (i = 0; i < num; i++) - if (params[i].flags & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) - kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg); + /* FIXME: This should free kmalloced charp parameters. It doesn't. */ } static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name, -- cgit v1.2.3