Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 2 authors, 2015-02-27

[net 01/13] i40e: Fix memory leak at failure path in i40e_dbg_command_write()

From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2015-02-26 15:03:59
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Alexey Khoroshilov <redacted>

The patch fixes a leak of 'cmd_buf' when copy_from_user() failed
in i40e_dbg_command_write().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <redacted>
Tested-by: Jim Young <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c
index 61236f9..c17ee77 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c
@@ -989,8 +989,10 @@ static ssize_t i40e_dbg_command_write(struct file *filp,
 	if (!cmd_buf)
 		return count;
 	bytes_not_copied = copy_from_user(cmd_buf, buffer, count);
-	if (bytes_not_copied < 0)
+	if (bytes_not_copied < 0) {
+		kfree(cmd_buf);
 		return bytes_not_copied;
+	}
 	if (bytes_not_copied > 0)
 		count -= bytes_not_copied;
 	cmd_buf[count] = '\0';
-- 
1.9.3
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