From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: utils: fix memory leak on on_msg() failure
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 18:54:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151116155407.GK18797@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447327936-26035-2-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:32:13PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> @@ -85,10 +86,10 @@ static ssize_t hvt_op_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> return PTR_ERR(inmsg);
>
> if (hvt->on_msg(inmsg, count))
> - return -EFAULT;
> + ret = -EFAULT;
You fix this leak and then re-introduce it again directly in patch 3/4.
Also it might be nice to preserve the error code.
ret = hvt->on_msg(inmsg, count);
kfree(inmsg);
return ret ? ret : count;
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-16 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 11:32 [PATCH 0/4] Drivers: hv: utils: prevent crash when a utility driver is disabled host side Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-11-12 11:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: utils: fix memory leak on on_msg() failure Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-11-16 15:54 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-11-16 17:40 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-11-12 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] Drivers: hv: utils: rename outmsg_lock Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-11-12 11:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] Drivers: hv: utils: introduce HVUTIL_TRANSPORT_DESTROY mode Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-11-12 11:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] Drivers: hv: utils: fix crash when device is removed from host side Vitaly Kuznetsov
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