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Subject[ 144/184] net/core: Fix potential memory leak in
2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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dev_set_alias()

From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>

[ Upstream commit 7364e445f62825758fa61195d237a5b8ecdd06ec ]

Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
---
net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 46e2a29..f4a6e14 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -967,6 +967,8 @@ rollback:
*/
int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
{
+ char *new_ifalias;
+
ASSERT_RTNL();

if (len >= IFALIASZ)
@@ -980,9 +982,10 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
return 0;
}

- dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dev->ifalias)
+ new_ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_ifalias)
return -ENOMEM;
+ dev->ifalias = new_ifalias;

strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1);
return len;
--
1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty




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