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x86/ldt: Plug memory leak in error path
The error path in write_ldt() tries to free 'old_ldt' instead of the newly allocated 'new_ldt', resulting in a memory leak. It also misses to clean up a half populated LDT pagetable, which is not a leak as it gets cleaned up when the process exits. Free both the potentially half populated LDT pagetable and the newly allocated LDT struct. This can be done unconditionally because once an LDT is mapped subsequent maps will succeed, because the PTE page is already populated and the two LDTs fit into that single page. Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Fixes: f55f050 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712311121340.1899@nanos Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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