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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2012-12-17 16:02:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 17:15:19 -0800
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binfmt_elf: fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data
If elf_core_dump() is called and fill_note_info() fails in the kmalloc() then it returns 0 but has not yet initialised all the needed fields. As a result we do a kfree(randomness) after correctly skipping the thread data. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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