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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2007-05-09 13:04:39 +1000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2007-05-09 13:04:39 +1000
commit1605b8471d64c855bc2493abf3adf6a1ebc3e645 (patch)
tree9196656af011cb1b678b27fc76f47355134f3256 /crypto
parentf6259deacfd55607ae57cff422d3bc7694ea14e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-1605b8471d64c855bc2493abf3adf6a1ebc3e645.tar.gz
[CRYPTO] cryptomgr: Fix use after free
By the time kthread_run returns the param may have already been freed
so writing the returned thread_struct pointer to param is wrong.

In fact, we don't need it in param anyway so this patch simply puts it
on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/cryptomgr.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/cryptomgr.c b/crypto/cryptomgr.c
index 6958ea83ee44..e5fb7cca5107 100644
--- a/crypto/cryptomgr.c
+++ b/crypto/cryptomgr.c
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
 #include "internal.h"
 
 struct cryptomgr_param {
-	struct task_struct *thread;
-
 	struct rtattr *tb[CRYPTOA_MAX];
 
 	struct {
@@ -81,6 +79,7 @@ err:
 
 static int cryptomgr_schedule_probe(struct crypto_larval *larval)
 {
+	struct task_struct *thread;
 	struct cryptomgr_param *param;
 	const char *name = larval->alg.cra_name;
 	const char *p;
@@ -130,8 +129,8 @@ static int cryptomgr_schedule_probe(struct crypto_larval *larval)
 
 	memcpy(param->larval.name, larval->alg.cra_name, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME);
 
-	param->thread = kthread_run(cryptomgr_probe, param, "cryptomgr");
-	if (IS_ERR(param->thread))
+	thread = kthread_run(cryptomgr_probe, param, "cryptomgr");
+	if (IS_ERR(thread))
 		goto err_free_param;
 
 	return NOTIFY_STOP;