linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] lkdtm: fix memory leak of base

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Date:	Tue,  5 Apr 2016 22:41:06 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] lkdtm: fix memory leak of base

This case is supposed to read from a memory after it has been freed,
but we missed freeing base if the memory 'val' could not be allocated.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 2f0b022..5b3a63c 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -458,8 +458,10 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
 			break;
 
 		val = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!val)
+		if (!val) {
+			kfree(base);
 			break;
+		}
 
 		*val = 0x12345678;
 		base[offset] = *val;
-- 
1.9.1