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Message-Id: <1383920905-13281-1-git-send-email-mlombard@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri,  8 Nov 2013 15:28:25 +0100
From:	Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@...hat.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kobject: fix memory leak in kobject_set_name_vargs

If the call to kvasprintf fails then the old name of the object will be leaked,
this patch fixes the bug by restoring the old name before returning ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@...hat.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 5b4b888..c2cb934 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -247,8 +247,10 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
 		return 0;
 
 	kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
-	if (!kobj->name)
+	if (!kobj->name) {
+		kobj->name = old_name;
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	/* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
 	while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
-- 
Maurizio Lombardi

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