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Ard Biesheuvel db9e8d33b0 efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 
[ Upstream commit ff04f3b6f2 ]

The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>
Fixes: fe5186cf12 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-12-02 08:48:12 +01:00
arch ARM: dts: dra76x: m_can: fix order of clocks 2020-12-02 08:48:10 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: Pre-allocate tree node on blkg_conf_prep 2020-11-10 12:35:59 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:55:01 +01:00
Documentation powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses 2020-11-22 10:02:26 +01:00
drivers optee: add writeback to valid memory type 2020-12-02 08:48:12 +01:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 2020-12-02 08:48:12 +01:00
include scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition 2020-12-02 08:48:09 +01:00
init printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300 2020-11-05 11:08:41 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:18:40 +02:00
kernel seccomp: Set PF_SUPERPRIV when checking capability 2020-11-24 13:27:26 +01:00
lib random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable 2020-11-18 19:18:52 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma->vm_mm after calling handle_userfault() 2020-11-24 13:27:26 +01:00
net batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE 2020-12-02 08:48:10 +01:00
samples misc: vop: add round_up(x,4) for vring_size to avoid kernel panic 2020-10-30 10:38:29 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 2020-11-05 11:08:31 +01:00
security selinux: Fix error return code in sel_ib_pkey_sid_slow() 2020-11-18 19:18:50 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: fix incorrect locking in hdmi_pcm_close 2020-12-02 08:48:08 +01:00
tools perf event: Check ref_reloc_sym before using it 2020-12-02 08:48:07 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Drop the reporting of GICR_TYPER.Last for userspace 2020-12-02 08:48:07 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM 2020-09-26 18:01:31 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.160 2020-11-24 13:27:27 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.