linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: parsers: qcom: Fix leaking of partition name

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Message-Id: <20210526090237.180505-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 May 2021 11:02:37 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: parsers: qcom: Fix leaking of partition name

On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 23:09:31 UTC, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> Add cleanup function as the name variable for the partition name was
> allocaed but never freed after the use as the add mtd function
> duplicate the name and free the pparts struct as the partition name is
> assumed to be static.
> The leak was found using kmemleak.
> 
> Fixes: 803eb124e1a6 ("mtd: parsers: Add Qcom SMEM parser")
> Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel