From e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:05:29 -0600 Subject: param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem. So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module unload. (Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes) Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Christof Schmitt Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/params.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/params.c') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index a1e3025b19a9..de273ec85bd2 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ #include #include +/* We abuse the high bits of "perm" to record whether we kmalloc'ed. */ +#define KPARAM_KMALLOCED 0x80000000 + #if 0 #define DEBUGP printk #else @@ -217,7 +220,19 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp) return -ENOSPC; } - *(char **)kp->arg = (char *)val; + if (kp->perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) + kfree(*(char **)kp->arg); + + /* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we + * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */ + if (slab_is_available()) { + kp->perm |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED; + *(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!kp->arg) + return -ENOMEM; + } else + *(const char **)kp->arg = val; + return 0; } @@ -571,6 +586,15 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod) } #endif +void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num) +{ + unsigned int i; + + for (i = 0; i < num; i++) + if (params[i].perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED) + kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg); +} + static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name, struct kernel_param *kparam, unsigned int name_skip) -- cgit v1.2.3