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authorLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>2015-09-17 16:01:40 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-10-03 13:51:39 +0200
commit6abf903c8eb352a3705353789ac200d188466f16 (patch)
tree9cd80e75e8e4d3888cfc99907a668d0b57f3ade0
parent92b52680751f95fa275c5a2dfb274de5c320d358 (diff)
zram: fix possible use after free in zcomp_create()
commit 3aaf14da807a4e9931a37f21e4251abb8a67021b upstream. zcomp_create() verifies the success of zcomp_strm_{multi,single}_create() through comp->stream, which can potentially be pointing to memory that was freed if these functions returned an error. While at it, replace a 'ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)' by a more generic 'ERR_PTR(error)' as in the future zcomp_strm_{multi,siggle}_create() could return other error codes. Function documentation updated accordingly. Fixes: beca3ec71fe5 ("zram: add multi stream functionality") Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
index 965d1afb0eaa..5cb13ca3a3ac 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c
@@ -330,12 +330,14 @@ void zcomp_destroy(struct zcomp *comp)
* allocate new zcomp and initialize it. return compressing
* backend pointer or ERR_PTR if things went bad. ERR_PTR(-EINVAL)
* if requested algorithm is not supported, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) in
- * case of allocation error.
+ * case of allocation error, or any other error potentially
+ * returned by functions zcomp_strm_{multi,single}_create.
*/
struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm)
{
struct zcomp *comp;
struct zcomp_backend *backend;
+ int error;
backend = find_backend(compress);
if (!backend)
@@ -347,12 +349,12 @@ struct zcomp *zcomp_create(const char *compress, int max_strm)
comp->backend = backend;
if (max_strm > 1)
- zcomp_strm_multi_create(comp, max_strm);
+ error = zcomp_strm_multi_create(comp, max_strm);
else
- zcomp_strm_single_create(comp);
- if (!comp->stream) {
+ error = zcomp_strm_single_create(comp);
+ if (error) {
kfree(comp);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
}
return comp;
}