x86/microcode/AMD: Free unneeded patch before exit from update_cache()
verify_and_add_patch() allocates memory for a microcode patch and hands it down to be added to the cache of patches. However, if the cache already has the latest patch, the newly allocated one needs to be freed before returning. Do that. This issue has been found by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88010e780b40 (size 32): comm "bash", pid 860, jiffies 4294690939 (age 29.297s) backtrace: kmemleak_alloc kmem_cache_alloc_trace load_microcode_amd.isra.0 request_microcode_amd reload_store dev_attr_store sysfs_kf_write kernfs_fop_write __vfs_write vfs_write SyS_write do_syscall_64 return_from_SYSCALL_64 0xffffffffffffffff (gdb) list *0xffffffff81050d60 0xffffffff81050d60 is in load_microcode_amd (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:616). which is this: patch = kzalloc(sizeof(*patch), GFP_KERNEL); --> if (!patch) { pr_err("Patch allocation failure.\n"); return -EINVAL; } Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@redhat.com> [ Rewrite commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: chuhu@redhat.com Cc: liwang@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724101228.17326-2-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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