Re: memory leak in posix_clock_open

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Mar 14 2024 - 06:20:50 EST


On Mon, Mar 11 2024 at 17:46, Z qiang wrote:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
> index 9de66bbbb3d1..71d9d8c394fa 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
> @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ static int posix_clock_open(struct inode *inode,
> struct file *fp)
>
> if (!err) {
> get_device(clk->dev);
> + } else {
> + kfree(pccontext);
> }
> out:
> up_read(&clk->rwsem);

Looks about right. Can you please send a proper patch?