Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leaks when parsing ThinkStation WMI strings

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Mon Apr 03 2023 - 05:45:53 EST


Hi,

On 4/3/23 03:31, Mark Pearson wrote:
> My previous commit introduced a memory leak where the item allocated
> from tlmi_setting was not freed.
> This commit also renames it to avoid confusion with the similarly name
> variable in the same function.
>
> Fixes: 8a02d70679fc ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Add possible_values for ThinkStation")
> Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/df26ff45-8933-f2b3-25f4-6ee51ccda7d8@xxxxxx/T/
> Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch series builds on top of the proposed patch from Armin Wolf
> "platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings"
> Changes in v2: None, but rebased series because of issues with second
> patch.

Thank you for your patch series, I've applied this series
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 series in my next fixes pull-req to Linus
for the current kernel development cycle.

Regards,

Hans




>
> drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> index 6034df6d577d..87f832142d8d 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
> @@ -1459,10 +1459,10 @@ static int tlmi_analyze(void)
> * name string.
> * Try and pull that out if it's available.
> */
> - char *item, *optstart, *optend;
> + char *optitem, *optstart, *optend;
>
> - if (!tlmi_setting(setting->index, &item, LENOVO_BIOS_SETTING_GUID)) {
> - optstart = strstr(item, "[Optional:");
> + if (!tlmi_setting(setting->index, &optitem, LENOVO_BIOS_SETTING_GUID)) {
> + optstart = strstr(optitem, "[Optional:");
> if (optstart) {
> optstart += strlen("[Optional:");
> optend = strstr(optstart, "]");
> @@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ static int tlmi_analyze(void)
> kstrndup(optstart, optend - optstart,
> GFP_KERNEL);
> }
> + kfree(optitem);
> }
> }
> /*