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From: Felipe W Damasio <felipewd@terra.com.br>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Cciss-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Memory leak in block/cciss.c driver
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:02:38 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6D22DE.10001@terra.com.br> (raw)

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	Hi Linus,

	Patch against 2.6-test5 which removes a few memory leaks from the cciss 
block driver.

	Bug found by smatch checker.

	Please apply,

	Cheers.

Felipe
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--- linux-2.6.0-test5/drivers/block/cciss.c	Mon Sep  8 16:50:32 2003
+++ linux-2.6.0-test5-fwd/drivers/block/cciss.c	Sun Sep 21 00:46:33 2003
@@ -754,16 +754,24 @@
 			status = -ENOMEM;
 			goto cleanup1;
 		}
-		if (copy_from_user(ioc, (void *) arg, sizeof(*ioc)))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		if (copy_from_user(ioc, (void *) arg, sizeof(*ioc))) {
+			status = -EFAULT;
+			goto cleanup1;
+		}
 		if ((ioc->buf_size < 1) &&
-			(ioc->Request.Type.Direction != XFER_NONE))
-				return -EINVAL;
+			(ioc->Request.Type.Direction != XFER_NONE)) {
+				status = -EINVAL;
+				goto cleanup1;
+		}
 		/* Check kmalloc limits  using all SGs */
-		if (ioc->malloc_size > MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE)
-			return -EINVAL;
-		if (ioc->buf_size > ioc->malloc_size * MAXSGENTRIES)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (ioc->malloc_size > MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE) {
+			status = -EINVAL;
+			goto cleanup1;
+		}
+		if (ioc->buf_size > ioc->malloc_size * MAXSGENTRIES) {
+			status = -EINVAL;
+			goto cleanup1;
+		}
 		buff = (unsigned char **) kmalloc(MAXSGENTRIES * 
 				sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!buff) {

                 reply	other threads:[~2003-09-21  3:57 UTC|newest]

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