Re: dell_smbios KASAN bug

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 16:29:01 EST


On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 15:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:30:21 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
> > > b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
> > > index 9dc282ed5a9e..c3825c674522 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-base.c
> > > @@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ static int __init dell_smbios_init(void)
> > >
> > > fail_platform_driver:
> > > kfree(da_tokens);
> > > + da_num_tokens = 0;
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > >
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, no.
>
> That's really weird. I would recommend throwing in a bunch of printks
> to see if things are being freed and set, to make sure this code is
> hit
> and something else isn't just corrupting it.
>

Actually the patch does make the KASAN bug go away - I'm so used to
building without modules that I forgot to rebuild the module after
applying the patch, sigh.

Tom

> -- Steve