[PATCH 8/8 V2] staging: dgap: fix memory leak in dgap_parsefile()

From: Daeseok Youn
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 05:20:35 EST


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". So just free this buffer and allocate again with
kstrdup().

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx>
---
V2: just use kfree for buffers which assigned to newly value
and then allocate again properly.

drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
index e4ea68b..76503fe 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
@@ -6599,6 +6599,8 @@ static int dgap_parsefile(char **in)
pr_err("parse: unexpected end of file\n");
return -1;
}
+
+ kfree(p->u.board.status);
p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL);
break;

@@ -6649,6 +6651,7 @@ static int dgap_parsefile(char **in)
return -1;
}

+ kfree(p->u.board.status);
p->u.board.status = kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL);

if (p->type == CNODE) {
--
1.7.1

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