Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c fix possible double free

From: Darren Jenkins
Date: Thu Mar 18 2010 - 04:47:08 EST



On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
<inaky.perez-gonzalez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If krealloc() fails to aallocate a new pointer, the old block is
> unmodified, so by doing this you are leaking a buffer allocation.

It seems you are right.
So now understanding correctly how krealloc() works I can see that the
double kfree() can only actually happen if the el_size parameter to
i2400m_zrealloc_2x() is zero, and it isn't at the two call sites.

So this was a false positive and I am sorry for the noise.

Darren J.


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