linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ppdev: don't print a free'd string

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Date:   Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:13:02 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppdev: don't print a free'd string

On Tuesday 06 December 2016 10:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:23:55PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> A previous fix of a memory leak now prints the string 'name'
>> that was previously free'd.  Fix this by free'ing the string
>> at the end of the function and adding an error exit path for
>> the error conditions.
>>
>> CoverityScan CID#1384523 ("Use after free")
>>
>> Fixes: 2bd362d5f45c1 ("ppdev: fix memory leak")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ppdev.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Sudip, any thoughts?
>

Hi Greg,

Sorry for the late reply. It looks good.

Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>


Regards
Sudip