[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "target: Fix a memory leak in target_dev_lba_map_store()" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 3 14:03:25 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    target: Fix a memory leak in target_dev_lba_map_store()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c8897d10a954f42476e7fea00831ae6940a033df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:47:17 +0100
Subject: target: Fix a memory leak in target_dev_lba_map_store()

commit f0a8afecb29ad0005e7e946228a0ef5422058b85 upstream.

strsep() modifies its first argument. Make the pointer passed to kfree()
match the return value of kmalloc().

Fixes: 229d4f112fd6 (commit "target_core_alua: Referrals configfs integration")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover at redhat.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab at linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
index 756def38c77a..d45fc1d38393 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
@@ -1810,14 +1810,14 @@ static ssize_t target_core_store_dev_lba_map(
 	struct se_device *dev = p;
 	struct t10_alua_lba_map *lba_map = NULL;
 	struct list_head lba_list;
-	char *map_entries, *ptr;
+	char *map_entries, *orig, *ptr;
 	char state;
 	int pg_num = -1, pg;
 	int ret = 0, num = 0, pg_id, alua_state;
 	unsigned long start_lba = -1, end_lba = -1;
 	unsigned long segment_size = -1, segment_mult = -1;

-	map_entries = kstrdup(page, GFP_KERNEL);
+	orig = map_entries = kstrdup(page, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!map_entries)
 		return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@ out:
 	} else
 		core_alua_set_lba_map(dev, &lba_list,
 				      segment_size, segment_mult);
-	kfree(map_entries);
+	kfree(orig);
 	return count;
 }





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