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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:13:39PM +0100, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 11:35 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >If copy_to_user() fails we returned error but we missed releasing
> >devices.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> >---
> > drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> >index f659e60..6688b60 100644
> >--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> >+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> >@@ -721,8 +721,11 @@ static long nvm_ioctl_get_devices(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
> >
> > devices->nr_devices = i;
> >
> >- if (copy_to_user(arg, devices, sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices)))
> >+ if (copy_to_user(arg, devices,
> >+ sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices))) {
> >+ kfree(devices);
> > return -EFAULT;
> >+ }
> >
> > kfree(devices);
> > return 0;
> >
>
> Thanks Sudip, it seems like this error is in some of the others
> ioctl's as well. Do you want to send a patch with the fixes for them
> all?

I can find a similar error in nvm_ioctl_info(). I will have a close look
tomorrow and send a patch. Is this patch applied or should I send a
combined patch fixing all these similar errors?

regards
sudip


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