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authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>2010-12-25 19:57:41 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-01-07 13:58:51 -0800
commit1084a6a86b13e66605f5c97c810286d0c02417dd (patch)
tree0de188105cae521d7be8182b98096525fe96a5d7 /lib/kernel_lock.c
parent42e9b5a7c3c6697e4d03d300df72e3527b67f5b1 (diff)
x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()
commit 5cdd2de0a76d0ac47f107c8a7b32d75d25768dc1 upstream. In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode() we have this: while (leftover) { ... if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) || microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) { vfree(mc); break; } ... } if (mc) vfree(mc); This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by just removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be freed nicely just after we break out of the loop. There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of checks for pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree(). That's completely redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with being passed a NULL pointer. Removing the redundant checks yields a nice size decrease for the object file. Size before the patch: text data bss dec hex filename 4578 240 1032 5850 16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o Size after the patch: text data bss dec hex filename 4489 240 984 5713 1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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