linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] omfs: Fix a memory leak bug

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Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:16:13 -0400
From:   Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To:     Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Cc:     "open list:OMFS FILESYSTEM" <linux-karma-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] omfs: Fix a memory leak bug

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:22:59AM -0500, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In omfs_get_imap(), 'sbi->s_imap' is allocated through kcalloc(). However,
> it is not deallocated in the following execution if 'block' is not less
> than 'sbi->s_num_blocks', leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this issue,
> go to the 'nomem_free' label to free 'sbi->s_imap'.

Nice catch, thanks.

Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>

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