linux-kernel - [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in mf

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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:20:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] iSeries: Don't leak if allocations fail in
 mf_getSrcHistory

Hi,

If memory is tight and a dynamic allocation fails there's no reason to 
make a bad situation worse by leaking memory.

mf_getSrcHistory potentially leaks pages[0-3]. I believe the right thing 
to do is to free that memory again before returning -ENOMEM - which is 
what this patch does.

I realize that the function is under '#if 0' so this probably doesn't 
matter much, but I assume that the function is still there for a reason 
(but I could be wrong, I don't know the powerpc code).
Anyway, I suggest we remove the leak.

Please keep me on CC when replying.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 mf.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
index 42d0a88..f67522a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/mf.c
@@ -1058,8 +1058,13 @@ static void mf_getSrcHistory(char *buffer, int size)
 	pages[2] = kmalloc(4096, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	pages[3] = kmalloc(4096, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if ((ev == NULL) || (pages[0] == NULL) || (pages[1] == NULL)
-			 || (pages[2] == NULL) || (pages[3] == NULL))
+			 || (pages[2] == NULL) || (pages[3] == NULL)) {
+		kfree(pages[3]);
+		kfree(pages[2]);
+		kfree(pages[1]);
+		kfree(pages[0]);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	return_stuff.xType = 0;
 	return_stuff.xRc = 0;


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