[PATCH v2] of: unittest: fix memory leak in attach_node_and_children

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Nov 27 06:23:37 AEDT 2019


On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:48:04 +0100, Erhard Furtner wrote:
> 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.
> 
> This has been detected with kmemleak:
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205327
> 
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Make the commit message more clearer.
> 
>  drivers/of/unittest.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Applied, thanks.

Rob


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