Re: [PATCH] target: Fix memory leak in fd_set_configfs_dev_params().

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:59 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 20:17 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > match_strdup() dynamically allocates memory and it is the responsabillity 
> > > of the caller to free that memory. In 
> > > drivers/target/target_core_file.c::fd_set_configfs_dev_params() two calls 
> > > are made to match_strdup() and in neither case is the allocated memory 
> > > freed, but instead it is leaked.
> > > 
> > > This patch should take care of the problem by kfree()'ing the allocated 
> > > memory once it is no longer needed. It also makes sure to return -ENOMEM 
> > > if the memory allocation in match_strdup() should fail.
> > > 
> > > Please review and consider for inclusion.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> > 
> > Ugh, this was my fault during the recent v4.0 configfs parameter
> > conversion.  Committed as 5c45b37 in lio-core-2.6.git/linus-38-rc1 and I
> > will fix up the other handful of match_strdup() breakage and carry into
> > scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb shortly.
> > 
> > Thanks for catching this..
> > 
> 
> You're welcome.
> Yes, I did see a bunch of other match_strdup() related problems, but I 
> thought I'd just fix up one file initially to see the general reaction, 
> then do the rest later when this one had been merged. but if you want to 
> fix up the remainder, feel free.
> 
> I guess we can merge this patch as a starting point?
> 

Sure, the other two follow-up match_strdup() memory leak bugfix patches
for target/iblock and target_core_configfs.c APTPL metadata token
parsing have been included into the scsi-post-merge-2.6.git/for-jejb
queue.

Thanks again!

--nab