linux-kernel - [ 054/135] net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set

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Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:37:19 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [ 054/135] net/core: Fix potential memory leak in dev_set_alias()

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>

[ Upstream commit 7364e445f62825758fa61195d237a5b8ecdd06ec ]

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 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 e6f2635..75da76d 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,8 @@ rollback:
  */
 int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len)
 {
+	char *new_ifalias;
+
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
 	if (len >= IFALIASZ)
@@ -1072,9 +1074,10 @@ 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;


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