linux-kernel - [PATCH] infiniband: hfi1: fix a memory leak bug

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Message-Id: <1566156571-4335-1-git-send-email-wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Date:   Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:29:31 -0500
From:   Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
To:     Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Cc:     Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org (open list:HFI1 DRIVER),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] infiniband: hfi1: fix a memory leak bug

In fault_opcodes_read(), 'data' is not deallocated if debugfs_file_get()
fails, leading to a memory leak. To fix this bug, introduce the 'free_data'
label to free 'data' before returning the error.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c
index 93613e5..814324d 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static ssize_t fault_opcodes_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	ret = debugfs_file_get(file->f_path.dentry);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
-		return ret;
+		goto free_data;
 	bit = find_first_bit(fault->opcodes, bitsize);
 	while (bit < bitsize) {
 		zero = find_next_zero_bit(fault->opcodes, bitsize, bit);
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ static ssize_t fault_opcodes_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	data[size - 1] = '\n';
 	data[size] = '\0';
 	ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, pos, data, size);
+free_data:
 	kfree(data);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.7.4