a5544880af
While looking for early possible module loading failures I was
able to reproduce a memory leak possible with kmemleak. There
are a few rare ways to trigger a failure:
o we've run into a failure while processing kernel parameters
(parse_args() returns an error)
o mod_sysfs_setup() fails
o we're a live patch module and copy_module_elf() fails
Chances of running into this issue is really low.
kmemleak splat:
unreferenced object 0xffff9f2c4ada1b00 (size 32):
comm "kworker/u16:4", pid 82, jiffies 4294897636 (age 681.816s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8c6cfeba>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8c200046>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x126/0x230
[<ffffffff8c1bc581>] kstrdup+0x31/0x60
[<ffffffff8c1bc5d4>] kstrdup_const+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffff8c3c23aa>] kvasprintf_const+0x7a/0x90
[<ffffffff8c3b5481>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x90
[<ffffffff8c4fbdd7>] dev_set_name+0x47/0x50
[<ffffffffc07819e5>] memstick_check+0x95/0x33c [memstick]
[<ffffffff8c09c893>] process_one_work+0x1f3/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8c09cb98>] worker_thread+0x48/0x4e0
[<ffffffff8c0a2b79>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
[<ffffffff8c6dab5f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v2.6.30
Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
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