linux-kernel - [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak

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Message-Id: <1448274911-8651-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:05:11 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Matias Bjorling <mb@...htnvm.io>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak

If copy_to_user() fails we returned error but we missed releasing
devices.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index f659e60..6688b60 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -721,8 +721,11 @@ static long nvm_ioctl_get_devices(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
 
 	devices->nr_devices = i;
 
-	if (copy_to_user(arg, devices, sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices)))
+	if (copy_to_user(arg, devices,
+			 sizeof(struct nvm_ioctl_get_devices))) {
+		kfree(devices);
 		return -EFAULT;
+	}
 
 	kfree(devices);
 	return 0;
-- 
1.9.1

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