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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jochen Schäuble" <psionic@psionic.de>,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: fix memory leaks in phram_setup
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 01:07:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605140107.18293.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> (raw)


There are two code paths in drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c::phram_setup() that
will leak memory.
Memory is allocated to the variable 'name' with kmalloc() by the 
parse_name() function, but if we leave by way of the parse_err() macro, 
then that memory is never kfree()'d, nor is it ever used with 
register_device() so it won't be freed later either - leak.

Found by the Coverity checker as #593 - simple fix below.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---


 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2-orig/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c	2006-03-20 06:53:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-git2/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c	2006-05-14 01:05:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -266,12 +266,16 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val, 
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = parse_num32(&start, token[1]);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		kfree(name);
 		parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+	}
 
 	ret = parse_num32(&len, token[2]);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		kfree(name);
 		parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+	}
 
 	register_device(name, start, len);
 





             reply	other threads:[~2006-05-13 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-13 23:07 Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-05-13 23:18 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-13 23:34   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-13 23:40     ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-14  6:37       ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-14 11:03         ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 13:21           ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-14 16:37             ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-14 20:07               ` Jörn Engel

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