x86, mce, AMD: Fix leaving freed data in a list
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Fri, 13 May 2011 13:52:09 +0000 (15:52 +0200)
committerSteve Conklin <sconklin@canonical.com>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:23:30 +0000 (14:23 -0500)
commit8f3d1d301d6f1c9bf635a29773c898c7b2492709
tree35ef8af03c90f885417165ef66dfc9e9ce23cf51
parent4bd7857f047523da734d5b522044645a124a2c21
x86, mce, AMD: Fix leaving freed data in a list

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788691

commit d9a5ac9ef306eb5cc874f285185a15c303c50009 upstream.

b may be added to a list, but is not removed before being freed
in the case of an error.  This is done in the corresponding
deallocation function, so the code here has been changed to
follow that.

The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression E,E1,E2;
identifier l;
@@

*list_add(&E->l,E1);
... when != E1
    when != list_del(&E->l)
    when != list_del_init(&E->l)
    when != E = E2
*kfree(E);// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305294731-12127-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve Conklin <sconklin@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c