linux-kernel - [PATCH] USB: gadgetfs: Fix a potential memory leak in 'dev

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:33:11 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     balbi@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] USB: gadgetfs: Fix a potential memory leak in 'dev_config()'

'kbuf' is allocated just a few lines above using 'memdup_user()'.
If the 'if (dev->buf)' test fails, this memory is never released.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
index 79a2d8fba6b6..a2c916869293 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
@@ -1781,8 +1781,10 @@ dev_config (struct file *fd, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ptr)
 
 	spin_lock_irq (&dev->lock);
 	value = -EINVAL;
-	if (dev->buf)
+	if (dev->buf) {
+		kfree(kbuf);
 		goto fail;
+	}
 	dev->buf = kbuf;
 
 	/* full or low speed config */
-- 
2.9.3