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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
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