[PATCH] intel_cacheinfo: fix use-after-free cache_kobject

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 04:09:27 EST


This avoids calling kobject_uevent() with cache_kobject that has
already been deallocated in an error path.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6-mmotm/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mmotm.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ 2.6-mmotm/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -780,15 +780,14 @@ static int __cpuinit cache_add_dev(struc
}
kobject_put(per_cpu(cache_kobject, cpu));
cpuid4_cache_sysfs_exit(cpu);
- break;
+ return retval;
}
kobject_uevent(&(this_object->kobj), KOBJ_ADD);
}
- if (!retval)
- cpu_set(cpu, cache_dev_map);
+ cpu_set(cpu, cache_dev_map);

kobject_uevent(per_cpu(cache_kobject, cpu), KOBJ_ADD);
- return retval;
+ return 0;
}

static void __cpuinit cache_remove_dev(struct sys_device * sys_dev)
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