Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging: dgap: fix memory leak in dgap_parsefile()

From: DaeSeok Youn
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 05:05:49 EST


2014-07-15 15:51 GMT+09:00 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:05:14PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>> The p->u.board.status is allocated and set a string as
>> "No" once within allocating a node of BNODE type.
>> But it also set again with kstrdup() in case of "STATUS"
>> or "ID". If it is not allocated yet, use kstrdup().
>> If not, use just memcpy().
>
> I don't think a 2 char buffer is always large enough to hold the new
> strings.
>
> Just free it and allocate again.
Yes, I will send this again.

Thanks.

regards,
Daeseok Youn.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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