[PATCH 1/2] of: overlay: fix properties memory leak

From: Vincent Whitchurch
Date: Mon Nov 18 2019 - 08:28:21 EST


No changeset entries are created for #address-cells and #size-cells
properties, but the duplicated properies are never freed. This results
in a memory leak which is detected by kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0x85887180 (size 64):
backtrace:
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1fb/0x1fc
__of_prop_dup+0x25/0x7c
add_changeset_property+0x17f/0x370
build_changeset_next_level+0x29/0x20c
of_overlay_fdt_apply+0x32b/0x6b4
...

Fixes: 6f75118800acf77f8 ("of: overlay: validate overlay properties #address-cells and #size-cells")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/overlay.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/overlay.c b/drivers/of/overlay.c
index c423e94baf0f..5f8869e2a8b3 100644
--- a/drivers/of/overlay.c
+++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static int add_changeset_property(struct overlay_changeset *ovcs,
pr_err("WARNING: memory leak will occur if overlay removed, property: %pOF/%s\n",
target->np, new_prop->name);

- if (ret) {
+ if (ret || !check_for_non_overlay_node) {
kfree(new_prop->name);
kfree(new_prop->value);
kfree(new_prop);
--
2.20.0