# \[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 10/27\] cxgb4: fix a memory leak bug

- From: Sasha Levin \<sashal@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2019-08-29 18:22:46 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2019/08/5703494
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/stable/2019/08/5703438/t.md

```text
From: Wenwen Wang <redacted>

[ Upstream commit c554336efa9bbc28d6ec14efbee3c7d63c61a34f ]

In blocked_fl_write(), 't' is not deallocated if bitmap_parse_user() fails,
leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this issue, free t before returning
the error.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
index 76540b0e082d3..9e5cd18e7358c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c
@@ -2777,8 +2777,10 @@ static ssize_t blocked_fl_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	err = bitmap_parse_user(ubuf, count, t, adap->sge.egr_sz);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		kvfree(t);
 		return err;
+	}
 
 	bitmap_copy(adap->sge.blocked_fl, t, adap->sge.egr_sz);
 	kvfree(t);
-- 
2.20.1

```