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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-10-29 08:56:16 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-10-29 08:56:17 +1030
commit65afac7d80ab3bc9f81e75eafb71eeb92a3ebdef (patch)
tree544c1e9192d8e47f1d1b1d54e36365f393ec7be0 /include/linux
parent964fe080d94db82a3268443e9b9ece4c60246414 (diff)
param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
e180a6b7759a "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers accessing random memory. Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all: 1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param. 2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory. The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are root-only writable. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 6547c3cdbc4..82a9124f7d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ typedef int (*param_set_fn)(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp);
typedef int (*param_get_fn)(char *buffer, struct kernel_param *kp);
/* Flag bits for kernel_param.flags */
-#define KPARAM_KMALLOCED 1
#define KPARAM_ISBOOL 2
struct kernel_param {