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Shu Wang committed a99f03428fa
x86/microcode/AMD: Free unneeded patch before exit from update_cache()
verify_and_add_patch() allocates memory for a microcode patch and hands
it down to be added to the cache of patches. However, if the cache
already has the latest patch, the newly allocated one needs to be freed
before returning. Do that.
This issue has been found by kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88010e780b40 (size 32):
comm "bash", pid 860, jiffies 4294690939 (age 29.297s)
backtrace:
kmemleak_alloc
kmem_cache_alloc_trace
load_microcode_amd.isra.0
request_microcode_amd
reload_store
dev_attr_store
sysfs_kf_write
kernfs_fop_write
__vfs_write
vfs_write
SyS_write
do_syscall_64
return_from_SYSCALL_64
0xffffffffffffffff
(gdb) list *0xffffffff81050d60
0xffffffff81050d60 is in load_microcode_amd
(arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:616).
which is this:
patch = kzalloc(sizeof(*patch), GFP_KERNEL);
--> if (!patch) {
pr_err("Patch allocation failure.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@redhat.com>
[ Rewrite commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: chuhu@redhat.com
Cc: liwang@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724101228.17326-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>