Re: [PATCH v3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 3/31/23 23:33, Armin Wolf wrote:
> When retriving a item string with tlmi_setting(), the result has to be
> freed using kfree(). In current_value_show() however, malformed
> item strings are not freed, causing a memory leak.
> Fix this by eliminating the early return responsible for this.
> 
> Reported-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/01e920bc-5882-ba0c-dd15-868bf0eca0b8@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
> Tested-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 0fdf10e5fc96 ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Split current_value to reflect only the value")
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>

Thank you for your patch, I've applied this patch to my fixes
branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=fixes

Note it will show up in my fixes branch once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

I will include this patch in my next fixes pull-req to Linus
for the current kernel development cycle.

Regards,

Hans



> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix Fixes: tag
> - Add Tested-by: tag
> Changes in v2:
> - Add Reported-by: and Link: tags
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> index cc66f7cbccf2..8cafb9d4016c 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> @@ -930,10 +930,12 @@ static ssize_t current_value_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *a
>  	/* validate and split from `item,value` -> `value` */
>  	value = strpbrk(item, ",");
>  	if (!value || value == item || !strlen(value + 1))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	else
> +		ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value + 1);
> 
> -	ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value + 1);
>  	kfree(item);
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> --
> 2.30.2
>