linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ovl: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup()

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:29:07 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     williamsukatube@....com
Cc:     overlayfs <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        William Dean <williamsukatube@...il.com>,
        Hacash Robot <hacashRobot@...tino.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: Fix a potential memory leak for kstrdup()

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 09:33, <williamsukatube@....com> wrote:
>
> From: William Dean <williamsukatube@...il.com>
>
> kfree() is missing on an error path to free the memory
> allocated by kstrdup():
>
> config->redirect_mode = kstrdup(ovl_redirect_mode_def(), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> So it is better to free it via kfree(config->redirect_mode).

Will be freed in ovl_free_fs().

Thanks,
Miklos