On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:21:21PM +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote: > This is of course wrong to call kfree() if memdup_user() fails, > no memory was allocated and the error in the error-valued pointer > should be returned. > > Reviewed-by: Ravikant Sharma <ravikant...@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendr...@samsung.com>
Calling kfree(NULL) is fine so there is no bug in the original code. Also this patch creates a new locking bug. regards, dan carpenter