Re: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Fix a memory leak in err path

[xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 2015/12/9 23:21, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> On 12/09/2015 04:00 AM, xinhui wrote:
>>
>> If kmemdup fails, We need kfree *buff* first then return -ENOMEM.
>> Otherwise there is a memory leak.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>

Hi Nathan,
	thank you for doing that :)

thanks
xinhui

>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
>> index 32e2652..21a278b7 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
>> @@ -542,9 +542,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
>>   			time->tv_nsec = 0;
>>   		}
>>   		*buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +		kfree(buff);
>>   		if (*buf == NULL)
>>   			return -ENOMEM;
>> -		kfree(buff);
>>
>>   		if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)
>>   			*compressed = true;
>>