linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 014/171] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:03:31 +0900
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 014/171] consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug
 in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:54:05PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 84ecc2f6eb1cb12e6d44818f94fa49b50f06e6ac ]
> 
> In function con_insert_unipair(), when allocation for p2 and p1[n]
> fails, ENOMEM is returned, but previously allocated p1 is not freed,
> remains as leaking memory. Thus we should free p1 as well when this
> allocation fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

No, please do not take this patch, it was reverted in commit
15b3cd8ef46a ("Revert "consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in
drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c"") because it was broken.

Please drop from all of the autosel queues.

thanks,

greg k-h