[PATCH 3.13 060/103] mei: nfc: fix memory leak in error path

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Sep 30 21:31:05 UTC 2014


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

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From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>

commit 8e8248b1369c97c7bb6f8bcaee1f05deeabab8ef upstream.

NFC will leak buffer if send failed.
Use single exit point that does the freeing

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c b/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
index 994ca4a..4b7ea3f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/nfc.c
@@ -342,9 +342,10 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	ndev = (struct mei_nfc_dev *) cldev->priv_data;
 	dev = ndev->cl->dev;
 
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	mei_buf = kzalloc(length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mei_buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
 
 	hdr = (struct mei_nfc_hci_hdr *) mei_buf;
 	hdr->cmd = MEI_NFC_CMD_HCI_SEND;
@@ -354,12 +355,9 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	hdr->data_size = length;
 
 	memcpy(mei_buf + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE, buf, length);
-
 	err = __mei_cl_send(ndev->cl, mei_buf, length + MEI_NFC_HEADER_SIZE);
 	if (err < 0)
-		return err;
-
-	kfree(mei_buf);
+		goto out;
 
 	if (!wait_event_interruptible_timeout(ndev->send_wq,
 				ndev->recv_req_id == ndev->req_id, HZ)) {
@@ -368,7 +366,8 @@ static int mei_nfc_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 	} else {
 		ndev->req_id++;
 	}
-
+out:
+	kfree(mei_buf);
 	return err;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1





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