On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:14:27PM -0300, André Almeida wrote:
> Hi Sebin,
>
> Às 10:29 de 10/07/22, Sebin Sebastian escreveu:
> > Fix two coverity warning's double free and and an uninitialized pointer
> > read. Both tmp and new are pointing at same address and both are freed
> > which leads to double free. Freeing tmp in the condition after new is
> > assigned with new address fixes the double free issue. new is not
> > initialized to null which also leads to a free on an uninitialized
> > pointer.
> > Coverity issue: 1518665 (uninitialized pointer read)
> > 1518679 (double free)
>
> What are those numbers?
>
These numbers are the issue ID's for the errors that are being reported
by the coverity static analyzer tool.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sebin Sebastian <mailmesebi...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c | 8 +++++---
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c
> > index f3b3c688e4e7..d82fe0e1b06b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c
> > @@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ static ssize_t
> > amdgpu_reset_dump_register_list_write(struct file *f,
> > {
> > struct amdgpu_device *adev = (struct amdgpu_device
> > *)file_inode(f)->i_private;
> > char reg_offset[11];
> > - uint32_t *new, *tmp = NULL;
> > + uint32_t *new = NULL, *tmp = NULL;
> > int ret, i = 0, len = 0;
> >
> > do {
> > @@ -1692,17 +1692,19 @@ static ssize_t
> > amdgpu_reset_dump_register_list_write(struct file *f,
> > goto error_free;
> > }
>
> If the `if (!new) {` above this line is true, will be tmp freed?
>
Yes, It doesn't seem to free tmp here. Should I free tmp immediately
after the do while loop and remove `kfree(tmp)` from the `if (ret)`
block? Thanks for pointing out the errors.
> > ret = down_write_killable(&adev->reset_domain->sem);
> > - if (ret)
> > + if (ret) {
> > + kfree(tmp);
> > goto error_free;
> > + }
> >
> > swap(adev->reset_dump_reg_list, tmp);
> > swap(adev->reset_dump_reg_value, new);
> > adev->num_regs = i;
> > up_write(&adev->reset_domain->sem);
> > + kfree(tmp);
> > ret = size;
> >
> > error_free:
> > - kfree(tmp);
> > kfree(new);
> > return ret;
> > }
