linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/core: fix null pointer dereference and memory leak in error handling

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jun 2016 19:21:17 -0400
From:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/core: fix null pointer dereference and memory leak in
 error handling

On 6/1/2016 2:06 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The current error handling in setup_hw_stats has a couple of issues.
> It is possible to generate a null pointer deference on the
> kfree of hsag->attrs[i] because two of the early error exit paths
> jump to the kfree when hsags NULL and not allocated. Fix this by
> moving the kfree on stats and jumping to that, avoiding the hsag
> freeing.
> 
> Secondly, there is a memory leak of stats if the hsag allocation
> fails; instead of returning, jump to the kfree on stats.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Thanks, applied.




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