[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 80/96] drivers/input/evdev.c: don't kfree() a vmalloc address

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 - 14:37:40 EST


3.13.11-ckt13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 92788ac1eb06e69a822de45e2a8a63fa45eb5be2 upstream.

If kzalloc() failed and then evdev_open_device() fails, evdev_open()
will pass a vmalloc'ed pointer to kfree.

This might fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401, where
there was a crash in kfree().

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx>
Belatedly-Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/evdev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
index a06e125..c33c8ff 100644
--- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

err_free_client:
evdev_detach_client(evdev, client);
- kfree(client);
+ kvfree(client);
return error;
}

--
1.9.1

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