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| author | Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> | 2008-03-28 14:16:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-28 14:45:23 -0700 |
| commit | d478376cb0dc9ab16a2b6e02fd8cd1174e724c64 (patch) | |
| tree | fda590df6ece65517db78c3434898640f56c60ee /drivers/base | |
| parent | 4cdc1d1fa5c5ac14dc21be19832f02fd0b83867e (diff) | |
driver core: fix small mem leak in driver_add_kobj()
The Coverity checker spotted that we leak the storage allocated to 'name' in
int driver_add_kobj(). The leak looks legit to me - this is the code :
int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj,
const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;
char *name;
int ret;
va_start(args, fmt);
name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args);
^^^^^^^^ This dynamically allocates space...
va_end(args);
if (!name)
return -ENOMEM;
return kobject_add(kobj, &drv->p->kobj, "%s", name);
^^^^^^^^ This neglects to free the space allocated
}
Inside kobject_add() a copy of 'name' will be made and used. As far as I can
see, Coverity is correct in flagging this as a leak, but I'd like some
configmation before the patch is applied.
This should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/driver.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c index bf31a0170a4..9a6537f1440 100644 --- a/drivers/base/driver.c +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj, { va_list args; char *name; + int ret; va_start(args, fmt); name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args); @@ -141,7 +142,9 @@ int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj, if (!name) return -ENOMEM; - return kobject_add(kobj, &drv->p->kobj, "%s", name); + ret = kobject_add(kobj, &drv->p->kobj, "%s", name); + kfree(name); + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_add_kobj); |