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Subject[PATCH v4] scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails
When alloc fails, free_table is being called. Depending on the number of
bytes requested, we determine if we are going to call _get_free_page()
or kmalloc(). When alloc fails, our math is wrong (due to sg_size - 1),
and the last buffer is wrongfully assumed to have been allocated by
kmalloc. Hence, kfree gets called and a panic occurs.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Carlyle <jeff.carlyle@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Olusanya Soyannwo <c23746@motorola.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
---
lib/scatterlist.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index a5ec428..a654897 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -248,8 +248,18 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
left -= sg_size;

sg = alloc_fn(alloc_size, gfp_mask);
- if (unlikely(!sg))
+ if (unlikely(!sg)) {
+ /*
+ * Adjust entry count to reflect that the last
+ * entry of the previous table won't be used for
+ * linkage. Without this, sg_kfree() may get
+ * confused.
+ */
+ if(pvr)
+ table->nents = ++table->orig_nents;
+
return -ENOMEM;
+ }

sg_init_table(sg, alloc_size);
table->nents = table->orig_nents += sg_size;
--
1.6.3.3


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