x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()
commit7ff06f34531f702f726ab2632476fdfadfffe32c
authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:57:41 +0000 (25 19:57 +0100)
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>
Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:03:52 +0000 (6 11:03 -0800)
treebc86c0f082f92de4836c638fda0b089dbff8211b
parent3b5dd0d60f277a0f991e548894defeb6665d2c20
x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()

commit 5cdd2de0a76d0ac47f107c8a7b32d75d25768dc1 upstream.

In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode()
we have  this:

while (leftover) {
...
if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
    microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
vfree(mc);
break;
}
...
}

if (mc)
vfree(mc);

This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by
just  removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be
freed nicely just  after we break out of the loop.

There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of
checks for  pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree().
That's completely  redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with
being passed a NULL pointer.  Removing the redundant checks
yields a nice size decrease for the object  file.

Size before the patch:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4578     240    1032    5850    16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Size after the patch:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4489     240     984    5713    1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c