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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] memstick: Fix memory leak in memstick_check() error path
Date: Thu,  3 Oct 2013 16:13:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380834798-5829-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (raw)

With kernel 3.12-rc3, kemcheck reports the following leak:

> unreferenced object 0xffff8800ae85c190 (size 16):
>   comm "kworker/u4:3", pid 685, jiffies 4294916336 (age 2831.760s)
>   hex dump (first 16 bytes):
>     6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  memstick0.......
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff8146a0d1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
>     [<ffffffff81160720>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x160/0x2f0
>     [<ffffffff81237b9b>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
>     [<ffffffff8122c0c1>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x60
>     [<ffffffff812e7f5c>] dev_set_name+0x3c/0x40
>     [<ffffffffa02bf918>] memstick_check+0xb8/0x340 [memstick]
>     [<ffffffff81069862>] process_one_work+0x1d2/0x670
>     [<ffffffff8106a88a>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
>     [<ffffffff81072ea6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
>     [<ffffffff81478bbc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

This problem was introduced by commit 0252c3b "memstick: struct device -
replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() where the name is not freed
in the error path.

Thanks to Catalin Marinas for suggesting the fix.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
---
 drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c b/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c
index ffcb10a..0c73a45 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ static struct memstick_dev *memstick_alloc_card(struct memstick_host *host)
 	return card;
 err_out:
 	host->card = old_card;
+	kfree(card->dev.kobj.name);
 	kfree(card);
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.4


             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 21:13 Larry Finger [this message]
2013-10-04  8:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-07  0:02   ` Larry Finger
2013-10-07  1:57     ` Alex Dubov
2013-10-07  3:17       ` Larry Finger
2013-10-07  8:48     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-10-08  2:13 ` [PATCH V2] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-08  3:12   ` Larry Finger

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