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* [PATCH 1/2] lkdtm: fix memory leak of val
@ 2016-04-05 17:11 Sudip Mukherjee
  2016-04-05 17:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] lkdtm: fix memory leak of base Sudip Mukherjee
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From: Sudip Mukherjee @ 2016-04-05 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kees Cook
  Cc: linux-kernel, Sudip Mukherjee

This case is supposed to read from a page after after it is freed, but
it missed freeing val if we are not able to get a free page.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 5f1a36b..2f0b022 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -498,12 +498,13 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
 	}
 	case CT_READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE: {
 		unsigned long p = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-		int saw, *val = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
+		int saw, *val;
 		int *base;
 
 		if (!p)
 			break;
 
+		val = kmalloc(1024, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!val)
 			break;
 
-- 
1.9.1

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