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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:33:25 +0400 From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru> To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ldv-project@...ras.ru Subject: [PATCH] net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set_alias() Do not leak memory by updating pointer with potentially NULL realloc return value. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru> --- net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0cb3fe8..3bcc5da 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1055,6 +1055,8 @@ rollback: */ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) { + char *new_ifalias; + ASSERT_RTNL(); if (len >= IFALIASZ) @@ -1068,9 +1070,10 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) return 0; } - dev->ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dev->ifalias) + new_ifalias = krealloc(dev->ifalias, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!new_ifalias) return -ENOMEM; + dev->ifalias = new_ifalias; strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1); return len; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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