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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 23 May 2011 18:20:20 +0000 (11:20 -0700)
commitc114f7a72b5acee23441106dddc9355057a0baa6
treeacd8ef1a15557402caa24cd23b863867a827db3e
parent8e743dbfcc5225b5f7d6baeb2e2cf83014e2e5b7
x86, mce, AMD: Fix leaving freed data in a list

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>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c