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If argv_split() failed, the code will end up calling argv_free(NULL).  Fix
it up and clean things up a bit.

Addresses Coverity report 703573.

Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 31, 2012
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44 changes: 25 additions & 19 deletions kernel/sys.c
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Expand Up @@ -2186,46 +2186,52 @@ static void argv_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
argv_free(info->argv);
}

/**
* orderly_poweroff - Trigger an orderly system poweroff
* @force: force poweroff if command execution fails
*
* This may be called from any context to trigger a system shutdown.
* If the orderly shutdown fails, it will force an immediate shutdown.
*/
int orderly_poweroff(bool force)
static int __orderly_poweroff(void)
{
int argc;
char **argv = argv_split(GFP_ATOMIC, poweroff_cmd, &argc);
char **argv;
static char *envp[] = {
"HOME=/",
"PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin",
NULL
};
int ret = -ENOMEM;
int ret;

argv = argv_split(GFP_ATOMIC, poweroff_cmd, &argc);
if (argv == NULL) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s failed to allocate memory for \"%s\"\n",
__func__, poweroff_cmd);
goto out;
return -ENOMEM;
}

ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_NO_WAIT,
NULL, argv_cleanup, NULL);
out:
if (likely(!ret))
return 0;

if (ret == -ENOMEM)
argv_free(argv);

if (force) {
return ret;
}

/**
* orderly_poweroff - Trigger an orderly system poweroff
* @force: force poweroff if command execution fails
*
* This may be called from any context to trigger a system shutdown.
* If the orderly shutdown fails, it will force an immediate shutdown.
*/
int orderly_poweroff(bool force)
{
int ret = __orderly_poweroff();

if (ret && force) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to start orderly shutdown: "
"forcing the issue\n");

/* I guess this should try to kick off some daemon to
sync and poweroff asap. Or not even bother syncing
if we're doing an emergency shutdown? */
/*
* I guess this should try to kick off some daemon to sync and
* poweroff asap. Or not even bother syncing if we're doing an
* emergency shutdown?
*/
emergency_sync();
kernel_power_off();
}
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