Commit 34e3e78b authored by Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar Stanislaw Gruszka Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

iwlwifi: fix freeing uninitialized pointer

commit 3309ccf7 upstream.

If on iwl_dump_nic_event_log() error occurs before that function
initialize buf, we process uninitiated pointer in
iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read() and can hit "BUG at mm/slub.c:3409"

Resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951241

Reported-by: ian.odette@eprize.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1a36af17
......@@ -2237,15 +2237,15 @@ static ssize_t iwl_dbgfs_log_event_read(struct file *file,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = file->private_data;
char *buf;
int pos = 0;
ssize_t ret = -ENOMEM;
char *buf = NULL;
ssize_t ret;
ret = pos = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true);
if (buf) {
ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, pos);
kfree(buf);
}
ret = iwl_dump_nic_event_log(priv, true, &buf, true);
if (ret < 0)
goto err;
ret = simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, ret);
err:
kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
......
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