Commit 6899e92d authored by Alan Cox's avatar Alan Cox Committed by Linus Torvalds

binfmt_elf: fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data

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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 323c1260
......@@ -1601,8 +1601,10 @@ 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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