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

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:41:59 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: fix memory leak

If the file read fails then we returned NULL as error but we missed
freeing buf.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@...ethink.co.uk>
---
 scripts/insert-sys-cert.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c b/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
index 8902836..b98a0b1 100644
--- a/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
+++ b/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static char *read_file(char *file_name, int *size)
 	if (read(fd, buf, *size) != *size) {
 		perror("File read failed");
 		close(fd);
+		free(buf);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	close(fd);
-- 
1.9.1