svn commit: r273552 - head/sys/kern

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 23 23:31:08 UTC 2014


On 10/23/2014 6:21 PM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:19:05PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
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>> On 10/23/14 15:47, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Xin LI <delphij at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> Log: Test if 'env' is NULL before doing memset() and strlen(), 
>>>> the caller may pass NULL to freeenv().
>>>
>>> If this is in response to a panic in early boot, the real bug is 
>>> elsewhere (see r273564).  Adding a NULL check here only hides it.
>>
>> Yes that would fix it.  Does this look good to you?
>>
>> Index: sys/kern/kern_environment.c
>> ===================================================================
>> - --- sys/kern/kern_environment.c	(revision 273564)
>> +++ sys/kern/kern_environment.c	(working copy)
>> @@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ void
>>  freeenv(char *env)
>>  {
>>
>> - -	if (dynamic_kenv && env != NULL) {
>> +	MPASS(env != NULL);
>> +	if (dynamic_kenv) {
>>  		memset(env, 0, strlen(env));
>>  		free(env, M_KENV);
>>  	}
>>
> 
> There are at least 80 consumers of this function. Unless someone is up
> to reviewing them all, can we go with a warning + backtrace for the time
> being?
> 

My DEBUG_WARN could be used for that. I had not committed yet, but it is
ready.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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