Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: utils: fix memory leak on on_msg() failure

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Mon Nov 16 2015 - 12:40:44 EST


Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:32:13PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> @@ -85,10 +86,10 @@ static ssize_t hvt_op_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>> return PTR_ERR(inmsg);
>>
>> if (hvt->on_msg(inmsg, count))
>> - return -EFAULT;
>> + ret = -EFAULT;
>
> You fix this leak and then re-introduce it again directly in patch
> 3/4.

Such a shame ... Thanks for noticing!

> Also it might be nice to preserve the error code.
>
> ret = hvt->on_msg(inmsg, count);
>
> kfree(inmsg);
>
> return ret ? ret : count;

It seems on_msg() hooks can only return -EINVAL now but why not
... let's do it in v2.

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Vitaly
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