This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi"
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: revert-ipmi_si-fix-memory-leak-on-new_smi.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From john.einar@gmail.com Wed Dec 27 16:15:28 2017
From: John Einar Reitan john.einar@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:03:44 +0100 Subject: Revert "ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi" To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: John Einar Reitan john.einar@gmail.com Message-ID: 20171223230344.2759-1-john.einar@gmail.com
From: John Einar Reitan john.einar@gmail.com
This reverts commit c97e41076a298dbc4e910c33048e553658388eed, which incorrectly was taken from upstream c0a32fe13cd323ca9420500b16fd69589c9ba91e.
The referenced memory leak doesn't exist on the 4.14 stable branch as the new logic of doing the kzalloc hasn't moved to this function. By adding this kfree we actually end up doing double kfree as all callers of smi_add does a kfree on error.
Sample with SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y:
ipmi_si: Adding ACPI-specified kcs state machine IPMI System Interface driver. ipmi_si: probing via SPMI ipmi_si: SPMI: io 0xca2 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0 (NULL device *): SPMI-specified kcs state machine: duplicate ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:295! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.8-gentoo-r1 #5 Hardware name: Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM/X9SCL/X9SCM, BIOS 2.2 02/20/2015 task: ffff88080c208000 task.stack: ffffc90000020000 RIP: 0010:kfree+0xf5/0x157 RSP: 0000:ffffc90000023e58 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff88080b2e6200 RBX: ffff88080b2e6200 RCX: ffff88080b2e6200 RDX: 000000000000008e RSI: ffff88082fc1cd60 RDI: ffff88080c003080 RBP: ffffc90000002808 R08: 000000000001cd60 R09: ffffffff814da10e R10: ffffea00202cb980 R11: 000000000000005c R12: ffffffff814da10e R13: 00000000ffffffed R14: ffffffff82317bd0 R15: 0000000000000003 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88082fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002e09001 CR4: 00000000001606f0 Call Trace: init_ipmi_si+0x493/0x5c7 ? cleanup_ipmi_si+0x84/0x84 ? set_debug_rodata+0xc/0xc ? kthread+0x4c/0x11c do_one_initcall+0x94/0x13d ? set_debug_rodata+0xc/0xc kernel_init_freeable+0x112/0x18e ? rest_init+0xa0/0xa0 kernel_init+0x5/0xe1 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 Code: 24 18 49 8b 7a 30 48 8b 37 65 48 8b 56 08 65 48 03 35 3a 29 e2 7e 4c 3b 56 10 75 39 48 8b 0e 48 63 47 20 48 01 d8 48 39 cb 75 02 <0f> 0b 49 89 c0 4c 33 87 40 01 00 00 4c 31 c1 48 89 08 48 8d 4a ---[ end trace 4ac2e2c100842676 ]---
Signed-off-by: John Einar Reitan john.einar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -3469,7 +3469,6 @@ static int add_smi(struct smi_info *new_ ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->addr_source), si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]); rv = -EBUSY; - kfree(new_smi); goto out_err; } }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john.einar@gmail.com are
queue-4.14/revert-ipmi_si-fix-memory-leak-on-new_smi.patch