[PATCH] sumversion: Fix a memory leak in get_src_version()

From: Elena Salomatkina
Date: Sun Oct 13 2024 - 09:11:30 EST


strsep() modifies its first argument - buf.
If an error occurs in the parsing loop, an invalid pointer
will be passed to the free() function.
Make the pointer passed to free() match the return value of
read_text_file().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 9413e7640564 ("kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms")
Signed-off-by: Elena Salomatkina <esalomatkina@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
index 6bf9caca0968..03774957d8b9 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int parse_source_files(const char *objfile, struct md4_ctx *md)
/* Calc and record src checksum. */
void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen)
{
- char *buf;
+ char *buf, *orig;
struct md4_ctx md;
char *fname;
char filelist[PATH_MAX + 1];
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen)
/* objects for a module are listed in the first line of *.mod file. */
snprintf(filelist, sizeof(filelist), "%s.mod", modname);

- buf = read_text_file(filelist);
+ orig = buf = read_text_file(filelist);

md4_init(&md);
while ((fname = strsep(&buf, "\n"))) {
@@ -406,5 +406,5 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen)

md4_final_ascii(&md, sum, sumlen);
free:
- free(buf);
+ free(orig);
}
--
2.33.0