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i40e: Fix memory leak at failure path in i40e_dbg_command_write()

Message ID 1424471058-19933-1-git-send-email-khoroshilov@ispras.ru
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Alexey Khoroshilov Feb. 20, 2015, 10:24 p.m. UTC
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 <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kirsher, Jeffrey T Feb. 20, 2015, 11:28 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 01:24 +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> 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 <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks Alexey, I have added your patch to my queue.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_debugfs.c
index 61236f983971..c17ee77100d3 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';