linux-kernel - [PATCH] spi: potential memleak in spidev

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 19:33:48 -0400
From:	Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
To:	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net, a.paterniani@...pp-eng.it
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] spi: potential memleak in spidev_ioctl

'ioc' should be deallocated if __copy_from_user fails (found by Coverity 
- CID 1644).

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
---

 spidev.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index c0a6dce..2464f34 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ spidev_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
 			break;
 		}
 		if (__copy_from_user(ioc, (void __user *)arg, tmp)) {
+			kfree(ioc);
 			retval = -EFAULT;
 			break;
 		}

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