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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Add missing kfree in error-exit from run_smbios_call
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:19:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202108262019.F3C9681F91@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210826140822.71198-1-hdegoede@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 04:08:22PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> As pointed out be Kees Cook if we return -EIO because the
> obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER, then we must kfree the
> output buffer before the return.
> 
> Fixes: 1a258e670434 ("platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Add new WMI dispatcher driver")
> Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Excellent! Thanks for doing this. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 14:08 [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Add missing kfree in error-exit from run_smbios_call Hans de Goede
2021-08-27  3:19 ` Kees Cook [this message]

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