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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2017-12-31 13:24:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-12-31 14:14:07 +0300 |
| commit | a62d69857aab4caa43049e72fe0ed5c4a60518dd (patch) | |
| tree | 08f6eb7b4cbaf2e658c072714a8f95346f44c2ce /arch | |
| parent | decab0888e6e14e11d53cefa85f8b3d3b45ce73c (diff) | |
| download | linux-a62d69857aab4caa43049e72fe0ed5c4a60518dd.tar.xz | |
x86/ldt: Plug memory leak in error path
The error path in write_ldt() tries to free 'old_ldt' instead of the newly
allocated 'new_ldt', resulting in a memory leak. It also misses to clean up a
half populated LDT pagetable, which is not a leak as it gets cleaned up
when the process exits.
Free both the potentially half populated LDT pagetable and the newly
allocated LDT struct. This can be done unconditionally because once an LDT
is mapped subsequent maps will succeed, because the PTE page is already
populated and the two LDTs fit into that single page.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: f55f0501cbf6 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712311121340.1899@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c index 579cc4a66fdf..500e90e44f86 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c @@ -421,7 +421,13 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount, int oldmode) */ error = map_ldt_struct(mm, new_ldt, old_ldt ? !old_ldt->slot : 0); if (error) { - free_ldt_struct(old_ldt); + /* + * This only can fail for the first LDT setup. If an LDT is + * already installed then the PTE page is already + * populated. Mop up a half populated page table. + */ + free_ldt_pgtables(mm); + free_ldt_struct(new_ldt); goto out_unlock; } |