linux-kernel - [PATCH] media: vidtv: Add the missing kfree to avoid the memory leak

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:05:55 +0800
From:   Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
To:     hverkuil@...all.nl, dwlsalmeida@...il.com, mchehab@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] media: vidtv: Add the missing kfree to avoid the memory leak

Since kstrdup() allocate a space for e->name and will not automatically
free.
If kzalloc() fails, we just kfree e without e->name.
Then we cannot get the pointer 'e->name' and cause the memory leak.

Fixes: 3d1387b3b8f6 ("media: vidtv: fix some warnings")
Reported-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@...as.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c
index ddaff46c440f..433fc0c7fdfa 100644
--- a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c
+++ b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ struct vidtv_encoder
 
 	ctx = kzalloc(priv_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctx) {
+		kfree(e->name);
 		kfree(e);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.25.1