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genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is read from *.symref file
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fri, 3 Jan 2025 07:30:39 +0000 (16:30 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 8 Feb 2025 09:02:16 +0000 (10:02 +0100)
commitf2f7527fec84715772f562dbff1bd69df70f2769
tree329265ee825de438e947f96e99523bcfb1b5c6ac
parent04cccdeef7ddf1e035a2c49c4f7b9f088e90774c
genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is read from *.symref file

[ Upstream commit be2fa44b5180a1f021efb40c55fdf63c249c3209 ]

When a symbol that is already registered is read again from *.symref
file, __add_symbol() removes the previous one from the hash table without
freeing it.

[Test Case]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include <linux/export.h>
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  foo void foo ( void )
  foo void foo ( void )

When a symbol is removed from the hash table, it must be freed along
with its ->name and ->defn members. However, sym->name cannot be freed
because it is sometimes shared with node->string, but not always. If
sym->name and node->string share the same memory, free(sym->name) could
lead to a double-free bug.

To resolve this issue, always assign a strdup'ed string to sym->name.

Fixes: 64e6c1e12372 ("genksyms: track symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c
scripts/genksyms/genksyms.h
scripts/genksyms/parse.y