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* Memleak in e100 driver
@ 2003-03-12 18:58 Oleg Drokin
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From: Oleg Drokin @ 2003-03-12 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: scott.feldman, alan, torvalds, linux-kernel

Hello!

    There is a memleak in e100 driver from intel, both in 2.4 and 2.5
    e100_ethtool_gstrings does not free "strings" variable if it cannot
    copy it to userspace.
    See the patch (identical for both 2.4 and 2.5).
    Found with help of smatch + enhanced unfree script.

Bye,
    Oleg

===== drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c 1.23 vs edited =====
--- 1.23/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c	Sat Feb  1 22:38:18 2003
+++ edited/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c	Wed Mar 12 21:50:32 2003
@@ -3824,11 +3824,15 @@
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
-	if (copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_data, &info, sizeof (info)))
+	if (copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_data, &info, sizeof (info))) {
+		kfree(strings);
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 
-	if (copy_to_user(usr_strings, strings, info.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(usr_strings, strings, info.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN)) {
+		kfree(strings);
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 
 	kfree(strings);
 	return 0;

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