From 8b2b9c1af065a45ef00c26964420489a53581779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:09:03 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] x86, intel_cacheinfo: fix use-after-free cache_kobject This avoids calling kobject_uevent() with cache_kobject that has already been deallocated in an error path. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c index 2c8afafa18e8..ff517f0b8cc4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c @@ -780,15 +780,14 @@ static int __cpuinit cache_add_dev(struct sys_device * sys_dev) } kobject_put(per_cpu(cache_kobject, cpu)); cpuid4_cache_sysfs_exit(cpu); - break; + return retval; } kobject_uevent(&(this_object->kobj), KOBJ_ADD); } - if (!retval) - cpu_set(cpu, cache_dev_map); + cpu_set(cpu, cache_dev_map); kobject_uevent(per_cpu(cache_kobject, cpu), KOBJ_ADD); - return retval; + return 0; } static void __cpuinit cache_remove_dev(struct sys_device * sys_dev) -- 2.30.2