On 2015/12/9 23:21, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
On 12/09/2015 04:00 AM, xinhui wrote:

If kmemdup fails, We need kfree *buff* first then return -ENOMEM.
Otherwise there is a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui....@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


Hi Nathan,
        thank you for doing that :)

thanks
xinhui

---
  arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 32e2652..21a278b7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -542,9 +542,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum 
pstore_type_id *type,
                        time->tv_nsec = 0;
                }
                *buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL);
+               kfree(buff);
                if (*buf == NULL)
                        return -ENOMEM;
-               kfree(buff);

                if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)
                        *compressed = true;


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