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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2025-01-03 16:30:38 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-02-08 09:58:09 +0100
commita23834b782777ce0704b7622725b8b6da5b043f5 (patch)
treef6b837ff86e3ee822d1a8b3d6b5332ea5c2525d4
parenta7a84a880afb95b91be6f2ae421c3c1aaa782c4e (diff)
genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is added from source
[ Upstream commit 45c9c4101d3d2fdfa00852274bbebba65fcc3cf2 ] When a symbol that is already registered is added again, __add_symbol() returns without freeing the symbol definition, making it unreachable. The following test cases demonstrate different memory leak points. [Test Case 1] Forward declaration with exactly the same definition $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); void foo(void) {} EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); [Test Case 2] Forward declaration with a different definition (e.g. attribute) $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); __attribute__((__section__(".ref.text"))) void foo(void) {} EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); [Test Case 3] Preserving an overridden symbol (compile with KBUILD_PRESERVE=1) $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> void foo(void); void foo(void) { } EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); $ cat foo.symref override foo void foo ( int ) The memory leaks in Test Case 1 and 2 have existed since the introduction of genksyms into the kernel tree. [1] The memory leak in Test Case 3 was introduced by commit 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes"). When multiple init_declarators are reduced to an init_declarator_list, the decl_spec must be duplicated. Otherwise, the following Test Case 4 would result in a double-free bug. [Test Case 4] $ cat foo.c #include <linux/export.h> extern int foo, bar; int foo, bar; EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); In this case, 'foo' and 'bar' share the same decl_spec, 'int'. It must be unshared before being passed to add_symbol(). [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=46bd1da672d66ccd8a639d3c1f8a166048cca608 Fixes: 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c3
-rw-r--r--scripts/genksyms/parse.y14
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c b/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c
index f3901c55df23..0077c96e526f 100644
--- a/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c
+++ b/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ static struct symbol *__add_symbol(const char *name, enum symbol_type type,
"unchanged\n");
}
sym->is_declared = 1;
+ free_list(defn, NULL);
return sym;
} else if (!sym->is_declared) {
if (sym->is_override && flag_preserve) {
@@ -247,6 +248,7 @@ static struct symbol *__add_symbol(const char *name, enum symbol_type type,
print_type_name(type, name);
fprintf(stderr, " modversion change\n");
sym->is_declared = 1;
+ free_list(defn, NULL);
return sym;
} else {
status = is_unknown_symbol(sym) ?
@@ -254,6 +256,7 @@ static struct symbol *__add_symbol(const char *name, enum symbol_type type,
}
} else {
error_with_pos("redefinition of %s", name);
+ free_list(defn, NULL);
return sym;
}
break;
diff --git a/scripts/genksyms/parse.y b/scripts/genksyms/parse.y
index 8e9b5e69e8f0..840371d01bf4 100644
--- a/scripts/genksyms/parse.y
+++ b/scripts/genksyms/parse.y
@@ -152,14 +152,19 @@ simple_declaration:
;
init_declarator_list_opt:
- /* empty */ { $$ = NULL; }
- | init_declarator_list
+ /* empty */ { $$ = NULL; }
+ | init_declarator_list { free_list(decl_spec, NULL); $$ = $1; }
;
init_declarator_list:
init_declarator
{ struct string_list *decl = *$1;
*$1 = NULL;
+
+ /* avoid sharing among multiple init_declarators */
+ if (decl_spec)
+ decl_spec = copy_list_range(decl_spec, NULL);
+
add_symbol(current_name,
is_typedef ? SYM_TYPEDEF : SYM_NORMAL, decl, is_extern);
current_name = NULL;
@@ -170,6 +175,11 @@ init_declarator_list:
*$3 = NULL;
free_list(*$2, NULL);
*$2 = decl_spec;
+
+ /* avoid sharing among multiple init_declarators */
+ if (decl_spec)
+ decl_spec = copy_list_range(decl_spec, NULL);
+
add_symbol(current_name,
is_typedef ? SYM_TYPEDEF : SYM_NORMAL, decl, is_extern);
current_name = NULL;