[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 37/42] test_firmware: fix a memory leak bug

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Aug 02 2019 - 09:32:14 EST


From: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d4fddac5a51c378c5d3e68658816c37132611e1f ]

In test_firmware_init(), the buffer pointed to by the global pointer
'test_fw_config' is allocated through kzalloc(). Then, the buffer is
initialized in __test_firmware_config_init(). In the case that the
initialization fails, the following execution in test_firmware_init() needs
to be terminated with an error code returned to indicate this failure.
However, the allocated buffer is not freed on this execution path, leading
to a memory leak bug.

To fix the above issue, free the allocated buffer before returning from
test_firmware_init().

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1563084696-6865-1-git-send-email-wang6495@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/test_firmware.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_firmware.c b/lib/test_firmware.c
index fd48a15a0710c..a74b1aae74618 100644
--- a/lib/test_firmware.c
+++ b/lib/test_firmware.c
@@ -894,8 +894,11 @@ static int __init test_firmware_init(void)
return -ENOMEM;

rc = __test_firmware_config_init();
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
+ kfree(test_fw_config);
+ pr_err("could not init firmware test config: %d\n", rc);
return rc;
+ }

rc = misc_register(&test_fw_misc_device);
if (rc) {
--
2.20.1