Re: [PATCH v3 -next] mtd: docg3: Fix a possible memory leak of mtd->name

From: YueHaibing
Date: Thu Jan 24 2019 - 20:40:45 EST


On 2019/1/24 23:00, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:28:19 +0800
> YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In case DOC_CHIPID_G3, mtd->name is not freed in err handling path,
>> which is alloced by kasprintf(). Fix this by using devm_kasprintf().
>>
>> Fixes: ae9d4934b2d7 ("mtd: docg3: add multiple floor support")
>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v3: use devm_kasprintf
>> ---
>> drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
>> index 4c94fc0..59ca4f5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
>> @@ -1767,8 +1767,8 @@ static int __init doc_set_driver_info(int chip_id, struct mtd_info *mtd)
>>
>> switch (chip_id) {
>> case DOC_CHIPID_G3:
>> - mtd->name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "docg3.%d",
>> - docg3->device_id);
>> + mtd->name = devm_kasprintf(docg3->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "docg3.%d",
>> + docg3->device_id);
>
> You forgot to remove the kfree() in the ->remove() path.

Oops..., I will fix this.

Thanks a lot!

>
>> if (!mtd->name)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> docg3->max_block = 2047;
>
>
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