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kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory
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commit 070c43e upstream.

If kexec_apply_relocations fails, kexec_load_purgatory frees pi->sechdrs
and pi->purgatory_buf.  This is redundant, because in case of error
kimage_file_prepare_segments calls kimage_file_post_load_cleanup, which
will also free those buffers.

This causes two warnings like the following, one for pi->sechdrs and the
other for pi->purgatory_buf:

  kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2119 at mm/vmalloc.c:1490 __vunmap+0xc1/0xd0
  Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (ffffc90000e91000)
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 2119 Comm: kexec Not tainted 4.8.0-rc3+ #5
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4d/0x65
    __warn+0xcb/0xf0
    warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
    ? find_vmap_area+0x19/0x70
    ? kimage_file_post_load_cleanup+0x47/0xb0
    __vunmap+0xc1/0xd0
    vfree+0x2e/0x70
    kimage_file_post_load_cleanup+0x5e/0xb0
    SyS_kexec_file_load+0x448/0x680
    ? putname+0x54/0x60
    ? do_sys_open+0x190/0x1f0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f
  ---[ end trace 158bb74f5950ca2b ]---

Fix by setting pi->sechdrs an pi->purgatory_buf to NULL, since vfree
won't try to free a NULL pointer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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bauermann authored and gregkh committed Sep 24, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -934,7 +934,10 @@ int kexec_load_purgatory(struct kimage *image, unsigned long min,
return 0;
out:
vfree(pi->sechdrs);
pi->sechdrs = NULL;

vfree(pi->purgatory_buf);
pi->purgatory_buf = NULL;
return ret;
}

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