Re: [PATCH] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c

From: Gen Zhang
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 21:53:59 EST


On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> This doesn't look safe to me: p->uni_pgdir[n] will still have a handle
> to the freed memory, won't it?
>
Thanks for your reply, Kees!
I think you are right. Maybe we should do this:
kfree(p1);
p->uni_pgdir[n] = NULL;
Is this correct?
> (And please direct these patches to Greg, as he's the current
> maintainer; I'm happy to stay CCed, of course.)
>
I will follow your suggestions, thanks!
Gen
> -Kees
>
> > memset(p2, 0xff, 64*sizeof(u16)); /* No glyphs for the characters (yet) */
> > }
> >
>
> --
> Kees Cook