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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:10:01 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:13:39PM +0100, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 11:35 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >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;
> >
> 
> Thanks Sudip, it seems like this error is in some of the others
> ioctl's as well. Do you want to send a patch with the fixes for them
> all?

I can find a similar error in nvm_ioctl_info(). I will have a close look
tomorrow and send a patch. Is this patch applied or should I send a
combined patch fixing all these similar errors?

regards
sudip
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