* [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: fix early params garbage value accesses
@ 2020-09-16 21:41 mateusznosek0
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From: mateusznosek0 @ 2020-09-16 21:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mm, linux-kernel; +Cc: Mateusz Nosek, akpm
From: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Previously in '__init early_init_on_alloc' and '__init early_init_on_free'
the return values from 'kstrtobool' were not handled properly. That caused
potential garbage value read from variable 'bool_result'. Introduced patch
fixes error handling.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6b699d273d6e..112e5a63f9ca 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -155,16 +155,16 @@ static int __init early_init_on_alloc(char *buf)
int ret;
bool bool_result;
- if (!buf)
- return -EINVAL;
ret = kstrtobool(buf, &bool_result);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
if (bool_result && page_poisoning_enabled())
pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, will take precedence over init_on_alloc\n");
if (bool_result)
static_branch_enable(&init_on_alloc);
else
static_branch_disable(&init_on_alloc);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
early_param("init_on_alloc", early_init_on_alloc);
@@ -173,16 +173,16 @@ static int __init early_init_on_free(char *buf)
int ret;
bool bool_result;
- if (!buf)
- return -EINVAL;
ret = kstrtobool(buf, &bool_result);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
if (bool_result && page_poisoning_enabled())
pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, will take precedence over init_on_free\n");
if (bool_result)
static_branch_enable(&init_on_free);
else
static_branch_disable(&init_on_free);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
early_param("init_on_free", early_init_on_free);
--
2.20.1
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