linux-kernel - [PATCH] [scripts] read

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Date:   Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:21:33 -0400
From:   Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
To:     gaurav1086@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] [scripts] read_file: fix memory leak

Free buf before returning to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086@...il.com>
---
 scripts/insert-sys-cert.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c b/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
index 8902836c2342..22d99a8faca9 100644
--- a/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
+++ b/scripts/insert-sys-cert.c
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static char *read_file(char *file_name, int *size)
 	}
 	if (read(fd, buf, *size) != *size) {
 		perror("File read failed");
+		free(buf);
 		close(fd);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.17.1