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authorZhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>2013-02-27 17:03:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-27 19:10:12 -0800
commit8c333ac2e4946a673b54f974d75397c947569c29 (patch)
tree30ff21ecad4f62726ac2a90dbb9cc6e60a5b9b95 /kernel
parentb92e7e0daed31389ff5ad9f558ef1284c846f6ee (diff)
downloadlinux-next-8c333ac2e4946a673b54f974d75397c947569c29.tar.gz
kexec: avoid freeing NULL pointer in image_crash_alloc()
Though there is no error if we free a NULL pointer, I think we could avoid this behaviour. Change the code a little in kimage_crash_alloc() could avoid this kind of unnecessary free. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 6b7455e3c96b..bddd3d7a74b6 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int kimage_crash_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
mend = mstart + image->segment[i].memsz - 1;
/* Ensure we are within the crash kernel limits */
if ((mstart < crashk_res.start) || (mend > crashk_res.end))
- goto out;
+ goto out_free;
}
/*
@@ -329,16 +329,15 @@ static int kimage_crash_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
get_order(KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE));
if (!image->control_code_page) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Could not allocate control_code_buffer\n");
- goto out;
+ goto out_free;
}
- result = 0;
-out:
- if (result == 0)
- *rimage = image;
- else
- kfree(image);
+ *rimage = image;
+ return 0;
+out_free:
+ kfree(image);
+out:
return result;
}