From: "Namjae Jeon" <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
To: "'Al Viro'" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<syzkaller@googlegroups.com>, <butterflyhuangxx@gmail.com>,
<sj1557.seo@samsung.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_parse_param()
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:16:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <015501d6394c$fa4aeb80$eee0c280$@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200603015808.GS23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:29:57AM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>
> > exfat_free() should call exfat_free_iocharset() after stealing
> > param->string instead of kstrdup in exfat_parse_param().
>
> ITYM
> extfat_free() should call exfat_free_iocharset(), to prevent a leak in case we fail after
> parsing iocharset= but before calling
> get_tree_bdev()
>
> Additionally, there's no point copying param->string in
> exfat_parse_param() - just steal it, leaving NULL in param->string.
> That's independent from the leak or fix thereof - it's simply avoiding an extra copy.
Updated it in v2.
Thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-03 2:16 UTC|newest]
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2020-06-03 1:29 ` [PATCH] exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_parse_param() Namjae Jeon
2020-06-03 1:58 ` Al Viro
2020-06-03 2:16 ` Namjae Jeon [this message]
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