linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:40:25 -0600
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, kristen.c.accardi@...el.com,
	matthew@....cx, kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names

* Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>:
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * We hit this the first time through, which gives us
> > +	 * space for terminating NULL, and then every power of 10
> > +	 * afterwards, which gives us space to add another digit
> > +	 * to "name-XX..."
> > +	 */
> > +	if (dup % width == 0) {
> > +		len++;
> > +		width *= 10;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	new_name = krealloc(new_name, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!new_name)
> > +		goto out;
> 
> If krealloc() fails you will leak the old new_name here.

Thanks for catching this. I already responded to Willy that I'm
changing it to:

	kfree(new_name);
	new_name = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);

That will prevent any leaks.

Thanks for the review.

/ac

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