linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] security:trusted_tpm2: Fix memory leak in tpm2_key

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Date:   Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:33:01 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
Cc:     jejb@...ux.ibm.com, zohar@...ux.ibm.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
        jmorris@...ei.org, serge@...lyn.com,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security:trusted_tpm2: Fix memory leak in
 tpm2_key_encode()

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:54:03PM +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> Line 36 (#1) allocates a memory chunk for scratch by kmalloc(), but
> it is never freed through the function, which will lead to a memory
> leak.
> 

through the function => in the implementation

Also, "line 36" is a relative to something, right? What is it?

/Jarkko