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module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:06:22 +0000 (14:06 -0800)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:20:54 +0000 (15:20 -0600)
commitb6b346b538027e303d5806e8372f42890a1d3bb6
tree31bd4bad4d001b911461a0641e675e5b4e2d492c
parent9f7a3e1075a5e845d01c9f52ebac9bda43a6907e
module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1672544
commit a5544880aff90baf1bd4443ac7ff65182213ffcd upstream.

While looking for early possible module loading failures I was
able to reproduce a memory leak possible with kmemleak. There
are a few rare ways to trigger a failure:

  o we've run into a failure while processing kernel parameters
    (parse_args() returns an error)
  o mod_sysfs_setup() fails
  o we're a live patch module and copy_module_elf() fails

Chances of running into this issue is really low.

kmemleak splat:

unreferenced object 0xffff9f2c4ada1b00 (size 32):
  comm "kworker/u16:4", pid 82, jiffies 4294897636 (age 681.816s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  memstick0.......
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8c6cfeba>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8c200046>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x126/0x230
    [<ffffffff8c1bc581>] kstrdup+0x31/0x60
    [<ffffffff8c1bc5d4>] kstrdup_const+0x24/0x30
    [<ffffffff8c3c23aa>] kvasprintf_const+0x7a/0x90
    [<ffffffff8c3b5481>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x90
    [<ffffffff8c4fbdd7>] dev_set_name+0x47/0x50
    [<ffffffffc07819e5>] memstick_check+0x95/0x33c [memstick]
    [<ffffffff8c09c893>] process_one_work+0x1f3/0x4b0
    [<ffffffff8c09cb98>] worker_thread+0x48/0x4e0
    [<ffffffff8c0a2b79>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
    [<ffffffff8c6dab5f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
kernel/module.c