[PATCH] kernel: kexec_file: fix error return code of kexec_calculate_store_digests()

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Thu Mar 11 05:32:13 GMT 2021


On 03/09/21 at 12:39am, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> When vzalloc() returns NULL to sha_regions, no error return code of
> kexec_calculate_store_digests() is assigned.
> To fix this bug, ret is assigned with -ENOMEM in this case.
> 
> Fixes: a43cac0d9dc2 ("kexec: split kexec_file syscall code to kexec_file.c")
> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab at tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec_file.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> index 5c3447cf7ad5..33400ff051a8 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> @@ -740,8 +740,10 @@ static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image)
>  
>  	sha_region_sz = KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX * sizeof(struct kexec_sha_region);
>  	sha_regions = vzalloc(sha_region_sz);
> -	if (!sha_regions)
> +	if (!sha_regions) {
> +		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto out_free_desc;

A good catch. Even though the chance of failure is very small, it does
cause issue if happened.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>

Thanks
Baoquan

> +	}
>  
>  	desc->tfm   = tfm;
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
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