x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()
authorJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:57:41 +0000 (19:57 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:58:51 +0000 (13:58 -0800)
commit1084a6a86b13e66605f5c97c810286d0c02417dd
tree0de188105cae521d7be8182b98096525fe96a5d7
parent42e9b5a7c3c6697e4d03d300df72e3527b67f5b1
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>
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