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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 13:49:12 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when
	memory_access_ok fails

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:03:56PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> We need to free newmem when vhost_set_memory() fails to complete.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp>
> ---

Thanks, applied.

>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 9633a3c..1241a22 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -337,8 +337,10 @@ static long vhost_set_memory(struct vhost_dev *d, struct vhost_memory __user *m)
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (!memory_access_ok(d, newmem, vhost_has_feature(d, VHOST_F_LOG_ALL)))
> +	if (!memory_access_ok(d, newmem, vhost_has_feature(d, VHOST_F_LOG_ALL))) {
> +		kfree(newmem);
>  		return -EFAULT;
> +	}
>  	oldmem = d->memory;
>  	rcu_assign_pointer(d->memory, newmem);
>  	synchronize_rcu();
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
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