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 9da58eabdcb2..95ef27cf8e82 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 From d553ad864e3b3dde3f1038d491e207021b2d6293 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:17 -0600 Subject: param: fix NULL comparison on oom kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@kernel.org --- kernel/params.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 95ef27cf8e82..00520c43d88c 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */ if (slab_is_available()) { *(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!kp->arg) + if (!*(char **)kp->arg) return -ENOMEM; } else *(const char **)kp->arg = val; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3c7d76e371ac1a3802ae1673f5c63554af59325c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:56:19 -0600 Subject: param: fix setting arrays of bool We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style). Reported-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@kernel.org --- kernel/params.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 00520c43d88c..d656c276508d 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ static int param_array(const char *name, unsigned int min, unsigned int max, void *elem, int elemsize, int (*set)(const char *, struct kernel_param *kp), + u16 flags, unsigned int *num) { int ret; @@ -309,6 +310,7 @@ static int param_array(const char *name, /* Get the name right for errors. */ kp.name = name; kp.arg = elem; + kp.flags = flags; /* No equals sign? */ if (!val) { @@ -354,7 +356,8 @@ int param_array_set(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) unsigned int temp_num; return param_array(kp->name, val, 1, arr->max, arr->elem, - arr->elemsize, arr->set, arr->num ?: &temp_num); + arr->elemsize, arr->set, kp->flags, + arr->num ?: &temp_num); } int param_array_get(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp) -- cgit v1.2.3