Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: fix memory leak on channel

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Sep 27 2018 - 23:10:05 EST


On Thu 27 Sep 14:36 PDT 2018, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently a failed allocation of channel->name leads to an
> immediate return without freeing channel. Fix this by setting
> ret to -ENOMEM and jumping to an exit path that kfree's channel.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1473692 ("Resource Leak")
>
> Fixes: 53e2822e56c7 ("rpmsg: Introduce Qualcomm SMD backend")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Added Cc: stable and applied.

Thanks,
Bjorn

> ---
> drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
> index 0dae7c9f4a8f..4abbeea782fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c
> @@ -1122,8 +1122,10 @@ static struct qcom_smd_channel *qcom_smd_create_channel(struct qcom_smd_edge *ed
>
> channel->edge = edge;
> channel->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!channel->name)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + if (!channel->name) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto free_channel;
> + }
>
> spin_lock_init(&channel->tx_lock);
> spin_lock_init(&channel->recv_lock);
> @@ -1173,6 +1175,7 @@ static struct qcom_smd_channel *qcom_smd_create_channel(struct qcom_smd_edge *ed
>
> free_name_and_channel:
> kfree(channel->name);
> +free_channel:
> kfree(channel);
>
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
> --
> 2.17.1
>