Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak

From: Matias Bjørling
Date: Mon Nov 23 2015 - 10:13:53 EST


On 11/23/2015 11:35 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
If copy_to_user() fails we returned error but we missed releasing
devices.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index f659e60..6688b60 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -721,8 +721,11 @@ static long nvm_ioctl_get_devices(struct file *file, void __user *arg)

devices->nr_devices = i;

- if (copy_to_user(arg, devices, sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices)))
+ if (copy_to_user(arg, devices,
+ sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices))) {
+ kfree(devices);
return -EFAULT;
+ }

kfree(devices);
return 0;


Thanks Sudip, it seems like this error is in some of the others ioctl's as well. Do you want to send a patch with the fixes for them all?
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