[PATCH 5.14 159/168] iwlwifi: pnvm: Fix a memory leak in iwl_pnvm_get_from_fs()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 20 2021 - 14:51:28 EST


From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 45010c080e6e7434fcae73212b0087a03590049f ]

A firmware is requested but never released in this function. This leads to
a memory leak in the normal execution path.

Add the missing 'release_firmware()' call.
Also introduce a temp variable (new_len) in order to keep the value of
'pnvm->size' after the firmware has been released.

Fixes: cdda18fbbefa ("iwlwifi: pnvm: move file loading code to a separate function")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b5d80f54c1dbf85710fd285243932943b498fe7.1630614969.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.c
index 830257e94126..513f9e538729 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ static int iwl_pnvm_get_from_fs(struct iwl_trans *trans, u8 **data, size_t *len)
{
const struct firmware *pnvm;
char pnvm_name[MAX_PNVM_NAME];
+ size_t new_len;
int ret;

iwl_pnvm_get_fs_name(trans, pnvm_name, sizeof(pnvm_name));
@@ -242,11 +243,14 @@ static int iwl_pnvm_get_from_fs(struct iwl_trans *trans, u8 **data, size_t *len)
return ret;
}

+ new_len = pnvm->size;
*data = kmemdup(pnvm->data, pnvm->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ release_firmware(pnvm);
+
if (!*data)
return -ENOMEM;

- *len = pnvm->size;
+ *len = new_len;

return 0;
}
--
2.30.2