From 9eb85125ce218a8b8d9a7c982510388e227adbec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:19:40 +0800 Subject: blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree() Impact: fix kfree crash with non-standard act_mask string If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(), the returned ptr != the original ptr. This bug was introduced by me. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: <49DD694C.8020902@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c index b32ff44..921ef5d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c @@ -1377,12 +1377,12 @@ static int blk_trace_str2mask(const char *str) { int i; int mask = 0; - char *s, *token; + char *buf, *s, *token; - s = kstrdup(str, GFP_KERNEL); - if (s == NULL) + buf = kstrdup(str, GFP_KERNEL); + if (buf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - s = strstrip(s); + s = strstrip(buf); while (1) { token = strsep(&s, ","); @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static int blk_trace_str2mask(const char *str) break; } } - kfree(s); + kfree(buf); return mask; } -- cgit v1.1