linux-kernel - [PATCH] ipmi: Fix memory leak in __ipmi_bmc

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Message-Id: <20191021200649.1511-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:06:48 -0500
From:   Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     emamd001@....edu, kjlu@....edu, smccaman@....edu,
        Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>,
        Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: Fix memory leak in __ipmi_bmc_register

In the impelementation of __ipmi_bmc_register() the allocated memory for
bmc should be released in case ida_simple_get() fails.

Fixes: 68e7e50f195f ("ipmi: Don't use BMC product/dev ids in the BMC name")
Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 2aab80e19ae0..e4928ed46396 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3031,8 +3031,11 @@ static int __ipmi_bmc_register(struct ipmi_smi *intf,
 		bmc->pdev.name = "ipmi_bmc";
 
 		rv = ida_simple_get(&ipmi_bmc_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (rv < 0)
+		if (rv < 0) {
+			kfree(bmc);
 			goto out;
+		}
+
 		bmc->pdev.dev.driver = &ipmidriver.driver;
 		bmc->pdev.id = rv;
 		bmc->pdev.dev.release = release_bmc_device;
-- 
2.17.1