Re: [PATCH] Free the memory allocated by memdup_user() in fs/sysfs/bin.c

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sun Jul 12 2009 - 10:58:18 EST


Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit 1c8542c7bb replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
> function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
> allocates memory which is never freed.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/sysfs/bin.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
> index 9345806..2524714 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
> @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
> if (count > 0)
> *off = offs + count;
>
> + kfree(temp);
> return count;
> }
>
>
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