[PATCH 3.19 041/101] nbd: fix possible memory leak

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-17T14:05:13Z

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>

commit ff6b8090e26ef7649ef0cc6b42389141ef48b0cf upstream.

we have already allocated memory for nbd_dev, but we were not
releasing that memory and just returning the error value.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -803,10 +803,6 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
return -EINVAL;
}

- nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!nbd_dev)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
part_shift = 0;
if (max_part > 0) {
part_shift = fls(max_part);
@@ -828,6 +824,10 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
if (nbds_max > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
return -EINVAL;

+ nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!nbd_dev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) {
struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1 << part_shift);
if (!disk)