[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 113/254] dm log userspace: fix memory leak in dm_ulog_tfr_init failure path

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 25 10:37:43 UTC 2014


3.16.7-ckt2 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>

commit 56ec16cb1e1ce46354de8511eef962a417c32c92 upstream.

If cn_add_callback() fails in dm_ulog_tfr_init(), it does not
deallocate prealloced memory but calls cn_del_callback().

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

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c b/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
index b428c0ae63d5..39ad9664d397 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int dm_ulog_tfr_init(void)
 
 	r = cn_add_callback(&ulog_cn_id, "dmlogusr", cn_ulog_callback);
 	if (r) {
-		cn_del_callback(&ulog_cn_id);
+		kfree(prealloced_cn_msg);
 		return r;
 	}
 
-- 
2.1.0





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