linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SCSI, target: Don't leak memory in error path in pscsi_alloc

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Date:	Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:56:27 -0800
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...nel.org>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI, target: Don't leak memory in error path in
	pscsi_alloc_task()

On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 23:29 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We'll leak the memory allocated via kzalloc() to 'pt' if the allocation of 
> memory for 'pt->pscsi_cdb' fails in pscsi_alloc_task().
> This patch fixes the leak by kfree()'ing the previously allocated memory 
> in the error path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
> ---
>  target_core_pscsi.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
>   Compile tested only since I lack the hardware.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c b/drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c
> index 742d246..84561a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c
> @@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ pscsi_alloc_task(struct se_cmd *cmd)
>  
>  		pt->pscsi_cdb = kzalloc(scsi_command_size(cdb), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!(pt->pscsi_cdb)) {
> +			kfree(pt);
>  			printk(KERN_ERR "pSCSI: Unable to allocate extended"
>  					" pt->pscsi_cdb\n");
>  			return NULL;
> 
> 

Thanks, but this one was already fixed recently by Roland in
lio-core-2.6.git/linus-38-rc2, and included in the series to mainline as
[PATCH 04/24]:

commit 85133a962707b0e550c3f5f151557bed3e056869
Author: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 16 06:59:51 2011 +0000

    target: Fix memory leak on error path

Best Regards,

--nab




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