From a263f7763c364015f92e7c097fa46c6673f6fcb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:32:58 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] module: fix memory leak when load fails after
srcversion/version allocated
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).
(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
---
kernel/module.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 39827c3d9484..c54f10d90e1c 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1797,6 +1797,17 @@ static void setup_modinfo(struct module *mod, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
}
}
+static void free_modinfo(struct module *mod)
+{
+ struct module_attribute *attr;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; (attr = modinfo_attrs[i]); i++) {
+ if (attr->free)
+ attr->free(mod);
+ }
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
/* lookup symbol in given range of kernel_symbols */
@@ -2506,6 +2517,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
synchronize_sched();
module_arch_cleanup(mod);
cleanup:
+ free_modinfo(mod);
kobject_del(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
kobject_put(&mod->mkobj.kobj);
free_unload:
--
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