On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:46:04 -0500
Wenwen Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

> In nand_scan_bbt(), a temporary buffer 'buf' is allocated through
> vmalloc(). However, if check_create() fails, 'buf' is not deallocated,
> leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this issue, free 'buf' before
> returning the error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_bbt.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_bbt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_bbt.c
> index 2ef15ef..96045d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_bbt.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_bbt.c
> @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ static int nand_scan_bbt(struct nand_chip *this, struct 
> nand_bbt_descr *bd)
>       if (!td) {
>               if ((res = nand_memory_bbt(this, bd))) {
>                       pr_err("nand_bbt: can't scan flash and build the 
> RAM-based BBT\n");
> -                     goto err;
> +                     goto err_free_bbt;
>               }
>               return 0;
>       }
> @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static int nand_scan_bbt(struct nand_chip *this, struct 
> nand_bbt_descr *bd)
>       buf = vmalloc(len);
>       if (!buf) {
>               res = -ENOMEM;
> -             goto err;
> +             goto err_free_bbt;
>       }
>  
>       /* Is the bbt at a given page? */
> @@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ static int nand_scan_bbt(struct nand_chip *this, struct 
> nand_bbt_descr *bd)
>  
>       res = check_create(this, buf, bd);

I know it's too late, but calling

        vfree(buf);

here

>       if (res)
> -             goto err;
> +             goto err_free_buf;
>  
>       /* Prevent the bbt regions from erasing / writing */
>       mark_bbt_region(this, td);
> @@ -1268,7 +1268,9 @@ static int nand_scan_bbt(struct nand_chip *this, struct 
> nand_bbt_descr *bd)
>       vfree(buf);

instead of here would have fixed the leak without the need for an extra
err label.

>       return 0;
>  
> -err:
> +err_free_buf:
> +     vfree(buf);
> +err_free_bbt:
>       kfree(this->bbt);
>       this->bbt = NULL;
>       return res;

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