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* [PATCH] vfs: samples: fix memory leak
@ 2020-08-09 17:06 trix
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From: trix @ 2020-08-09 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dhowells, jlayton; +Cc: linux-kernel, Tom Rix

From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

clang static analysis reports this represenative problem

test-fsinfo.c:615:3: warning: Potential leak of memory pointed to by 'r'
                memset(r, 0xbd, buf_size);
                ^~~~~~

r dynamically allocated in a loop an increasing size.

	for (;;) {
		r = malloc(buf_size);
...
		buf_size = (ret + 4096 - 1) & ~(4096 - 1);
	}

The problem is that r is never freed at the bottom of the loop.
So free r.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
---
 samples/vfs/test-fsinfo.c  | 1 +
 samples/vfs/test-mntinfo.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/samples/vfs/test-fsinfo.c b/samples/vfs/test-fsinfo.c
index aa122fb555b6..d669201d03ac 100644
--- a/samples/vfs/test-fsinfo.c
+++ b/samples/vfs/test-fsinfo.c
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ static ssize_t get_fsinfo(const char *file, const char *name,
 		if (ret <= buf_size - 1)
 			break;
 		buf_size = (ret + 4096 - 1) & ~(4096 - 1);
+		free(r);
 	}
 
 	if (debug)
diff --git a/samples/vfs/test-mntinfo.c b/samples/vfs/test-mntinfo.c
index 40125ad81f17..54a6abf4a8b0 100644
--- a/samples/vfs/test-mntinfo.c
+++ b/samples/vfs/test-mntinfo.c
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ static void *get_attr_alloc(unsigned int mnt_id, unsigned int attr,
 			break;
 		}
 		buf_size = (ret + 4096 - 1) & ~(4096 - 1);
+		free(r);
 	}
 
 	return r;
-- 
2.18.1


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