linux/arch
Jesper Juhl 5cdd2de0a7 x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree()
In arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c::generic_load_microcode()
we have  this:

	while (leftover) {
		...
		if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
		    microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
			vfree(mc);
			break;
		}
		...
	}

	if (mc)
		vfree(mc);

This will cause a double free of 'mc'. This patch fixes that by
just  removing the vfree() call in the loop since 'mc' will be
freed nicely just  after we break out of the loop.

There's also a second change in the patch. I noticed a lot of
checks for  pointers being NULL before passing them to vfree().
That's completely  redundant since vfree() deals gracefully with
being passed a NULL pointer.  Removing the redundant checks
yields a nice size decrease for the object  file.

Size before the patch:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4578     240    1032    5850    16da arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o
Size after the patch:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4489     240     984    5713    1651 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.o

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251946100.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-27 14:33:30 +01:00
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blackfin BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
cris Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
frv BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
h8300 BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
ia64 SCSI host lock push-down 2010-11-16 13:33:23 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
m68k BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
m68knommu BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
microblaze Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
mips MIPS: Fix build errors in sc-mips.c 2010-12-17 19:44:35 +00:00
mn10300 clarify a usage constraint for cnt32_to_63() 2010-12-20 09:07:35 -08:00
parisc parisc: convert the rest of the irq handlers to simple/percpu 2010-12-04 11:15:19 -05:00
powerpc powerpc: Use call_rcu_sched() for pagetables 2010-11-30 10:42:20 +11:00
s390 [S390] nohz/s390: fix arch_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus 2010-12-01 10:08:17 +01:00
score Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
sh sh: wire up accept4 syscall (non-multiplexed path) 2010-12-14 17:58:10 +09:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2010-12-14 17:34:00 -08:00
tile arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly 2010-12-17 16:59:29 -05:00
um uml: disable winch irq before freeing handler data 2010-11-25 06:50:39 +09:00
x86 x86/microcode: Fix double vfree() and remove redundant pointer checks before vfree() 2010-12-27 14:33:30 +01:00
xtensa Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
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