From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] jffs2: potential memory leaks in jffs2_scan_medium()
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:43:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <449B6349.7070205@gmail.com> (raw)
This patch deals with 3 return paths that fail to perform proper cleanup
(which can result into leaking 'flashbuf' and/or 's').
Coverity IDs: 676, 1301
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
---
fs/jffs2/scan.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/scan.c b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
index 6161808..4a068de 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/scan.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
@@ -128,12 +128,12 @@ #endif
}
if (jffs2_sum_active()) {
- s = kmalloc(sizeof(struct jffs2_summary), GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct jffs2_summary), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s) {
JFFS2_WARNING("Can't allocate memory for summary\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
}
- memset(s, 0, sizeof(struct jffs2_summary));
}
for (i=0; i<c->nr_blocks; i++) {
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ #endif
if (c->nextblock) {
ret = file_dirty(c, c->nextblock);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
/* deleting summary information of the old nextblock */
jffs2_sum_reset_collected(c->summary);
}
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ #endif
} else {
ret = file_dirty(c, jeb);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
}
break;
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