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Subject[RFC PATCH 1/2] binfmt_elf: Fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data
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Could do with double checking...

From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

If elf_core_dump is called and fill_note_info fails in the kmalloc then
it returns 0 but has not yet initialised all the needed fields. As a result
we do a kfree(randomness) after correctly skipping the thread data.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
---

fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 1b4efbc..bf6d82b 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1492,8 +1492,10 @@ static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr *elf, int phdrs,
info->thread = NULL;

psinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*psinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (psinfo == NULL)
+ if (psinfo == NULL) {
+ info->psinfo.data = NULL; /* So we don't free this wrongly */
return 0;
+ }

fill_note(&info->psinfo, "CORE", NT_PRPSINFO, sizeof(*psinfo), psinfo);



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