Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c::target_message():don't leak 'argv' mem

From: Mikulas Patocka
Date: Sun Jan 15 2012 - 17:28:25 EST


Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

BTW., it should be also backported to RHEL-6.

Mikulas

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> If, after allocating memory for 'argv' via dm_split_args(...), we take
> the true branch of 'if (!argc)', we'll jump to the 'out:' label and
> neglect to free the memory we allocated. We should instead jump to the
> 'out_argv:' label in that case as far as I can tell.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> Compile tested only.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
> index 31c2dc2..1ce84ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
> @@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ static int target_message(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size)
>
> if (!argc) {
> DMWARN("Empty message received.");
> - goto out;
> + goto out_argv;
> }
>
> table = dm_get_live_table(md);
> --
> 1.7.8.3
>
>
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