[PATCH] of: unittest: fix memory leak in attach_node_and_children
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Nov 19 12:25:52 AEDT 2019
Erhard Furtner <erhard_f at mailbox.org> writes:
> In attach_node_and_children memory is allocated for full_name via
> kasprintf. If the condition of the 1st if is not met the function
> returns early without freeing the memory. Add a kfree() to fix that.
It would be good to mention that this was detected with kmemleak.
It looks like the leak was introduced by this commit:
Fixes: 5babefb7f7ab ("of: unittest: allow base devicetree to have symbol metadata")
> Signed-off-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f at mailbox.org>
> ---
> drivers/of/unittest.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Because this patch is to drivers/of, you need to send it to the right
folks. You can work out who with:
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/of/unittest.c
robh+dt at kernel.org
frowand.list at gmail.com
devicetree at vger.kernel.org
linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
So to get it merged you should send a v2 (ie. with "PATCH v2" in the
subject), and Cc those people above as well as linuxppc-dev.
You should include the Fixes and Reviewed-by tags I've posted above in
your v2.
cheers
> diff --git a/drivers/of/unittest.c b/drivers/of/unittest.c
> index 92e895d86458..ca7823eef2b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/unittest.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/unittest.c
> @@ -1146,8 +1146,10 @@ static void attach_node_and_children(struct device_node *np)
> full_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%pOF", np);
>
> if (!strcmp(full_name, "/__local_fixups__") ||
> - !strcmp(full_name, "/__fixups__"))
> + !strcmp(full_name, "/__fixups__")) {
> + kfree(full_name);
> return;
> + }
>
> dup = of_find_node_by_path(full_name);
> kfree(full_name);
> --
> 2.23.0
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