[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 80/96] drivers/input/evdev.c: don't kfree() a vmalloc address
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 19:26:40 UTC 2014
3.13.11-ckt13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
commit 92788ac1eb06e69a822de45e2a8a63fa45eb5be2 upstream.
If kzalloc() failed and then evdev_open_device() fails, evdev_open()
will pass a vmalloc'ed pointer to kfree.
This might fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401, where
there was a crash in kfree().
Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian at free.fr>
Belatedly-Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg at euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
drivers/input/evdev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
index a06e125..c33c8ff 100644
--- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
err_free_client:
evdev_detach_client(evdev, client);
- kfree(client);
+ kvfree(client);
return error;
}
--
1.9.1
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