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-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c14
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c26
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f77ac320d0b..b862fdb6a37 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1491,6 +1491,9 @@ static void free_module(struct module *mod)
/* Module unload stuff */
module_unload_free(mod);
+ /* Free any allocated parameters. */
+ destroy_params(mod->kp, mod->num_kp);
+
/* release any pointers to mcount in this module */
ftrace_release(mod->module_core, mod->core_size);
@@ -1898,8 +1901,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
unsigned int symindex = 0;
unsigned int strindex = 0;
unsigned int modindex, versindex, infoindex, pcpuindex;
- unsigned int num_kp, num_mcount;
- struct kernel_param *kp;
+ unsigned int num_mcount;
struct module *mod;
long err = 0;
void *percpu = NULL, *ptr = NULL; /* Stops spurious gcc warning */
@@ -2144,8 +2146,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
/* Now we've got everything in the final locations, we can
* find optional sections. */
- kp = section_objs(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__param", sizeof(*kp),
- &num_kp);
+ mod->kp = section_objs(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__param",
+ sizeof(*mod->kp), &mod->num_kp);
mod->syms = section_objs(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__ksymtab",
sizeof(*mod->syms), &mod->num_syms);
mod->crcs = section_addr(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__kcrctab");
@@ -2291,11 +2293,11 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
*/
list_add_rcu(&mod->list, &modules);
- err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, kp, num_kp, NULL);
+ err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp, NULL);
if (err < 0)
goto unlink;
- err = mod_sysfs_setup(mod, kp, num_kp);
+ err = mod_sysfs_setup(mod, mod->kp, mod->num_kp);
if (err < 0)
goto unlink;
add_sect_attrs(mod, hdr->e_shnum, secstrings, sechdrs);
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index a1e3025b19a..de273ec85bd 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+/* We abuse the high bits of "perm" to record whether we kmalloc'ed. */
+#define KPARAM_KMALLOCED 0x80000000
+
#if 0
#define DEBUGP printk
#else
@@ -217,7 +220,19 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, struct kernel_param *kp)
return -ENOSPC;
}
- *(char **)kp->arg = (char *)val;
+ if (kp->perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
+ kfree(*(char **)kp->arg);
+
+ /* This is a hack. We can't need to strdup in early boot, and we
+ * don't need to; this mangled commandline is preserved. */
+ if (slab_is_available()) {
+ kp->perm |= KPARAM_KMALLOCED;
+ *(char **)kp->arg = kstrdup(val, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!kp->arg)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ } else
+ *(const char **)kp->arg = val;
+
return 0;
}
@@ -571,6 +586,15 @@ void module_param_sysfs_remove(struct module *mod)
}
#endif
+void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
+ if (params[i].perm & KPARAM_KMALLOCED)
+ kfree(*(char **)params[i].arg);
+}
+
static void __init kernel_add_sysfs_param(const char *name,
struct kernel_param *kparam,
unsigned int name_skip)