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can/softing: Fix potential memory leak in softing_load_fw()

Message ID 1344438901-25005-1-git-send-email-khoroshilov@ispras.ru
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Alexey Khoroshilov Aug. 8, 2012, 3:15 p.m. UTC
Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value.

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

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
---
 drivers/net/can/softing/softing_fw.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Marc Kleine-Budde Aug. 8, 2012, 5:18 p.m. UTC | #1
On 08/08/2012 05:15 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>

Thanks for the work,
applied to can/master.

Marc
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/softing/softing_fw.c b/drivers/net/can/softing/softing_fw.c
index 3105961..b595d34 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/softing/softing_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/softing/softing_fw.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@  int softing_load_fw(const char *file, struct softing *card,
 	const uint8_t *mem, *end, *dat;
 	uint16_t type, len;
 	uint32_t addr;
-	uint8_t *buf = NULL;
+	uint8_t *buf = NULL, *new_buf;
 	int buflen = 0;
 	int8_t type_end = 0;
 
@@ -199,11 +199,12 @@  int softing_load_fw(const char *file, struct softing *card,
 		if (len > buflen) {
 			/* align buflen */
 			buflen = (len + (1024-1)) & ~(1024-1);
-			buf = krealloc(buf, buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (!buf) {
+			new_buf = krealloc(buf, buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!new_buf) {
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
 				goto failed;
 			}
+			buf = new_buf;
 		}
 		/* verify record data */
 		memcpy_fromio(buf, &dpram[addr + offset], len);