[PATCH] fs: pstore: fix double-free on ramoops_init_przs

From: Cengiz Can
Date: Tue Jan 07 2020 - 06:05:14 EST


According to Coverity scanner (CID 1457526) kfree on ram.c:591 frees
label which has already been freed.

Here's the flow as I have understood (this is my first time reading
pstore's files):

Whenever `persistent_ram_new` fails, it implicitly calls
`persistent_ram_free(prz)` which already does `kfree(prz->label)` and a
`kfree(prz)` consequently.

Removed `kfree(label)` to prevent double-free.

Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/ram.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 487ee39b4..e196aa08f 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -588,7 +588,6 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(const char *name,
dev_err(dev, "failed to request %s mem region (0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
name, record_size,
(unsigned long long)*paddr, err);
- kfree(label);

while (i > 0) {
i--;
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2.24.1